Ottawa approves Saskatchewan carbon pricing plan to regulate large emitters
All large greenhouse gas emitters in Saskatchewan will soon be regulated by the provincial government after Ottawa ruled the plan meets national standards.
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Guilbeault rejects Atlantic Canada's request for climate plan extension
The federal environment minister on Thursday, September 1, 2022, rejected a request from the premiers of Atlantic Canada for an extension to the deadline to submit their plans to tackle carbon emissions.
The Keystone XL project nixed by John Kerry in 2015 has changed significantly, Canada's U.S. envoy says
President-elect Joe Biden's new climate envoy may be the same person who nixed the Keystone XL pipeline expansion in 2015, but the project itself has evolved significantly since then, Canada's U.S. ambassador said on Tuesday, November 24, 2020.
Lawsuit says illegal to force gas stations to paste carbon-price stickers
An Ontario law forcing gas stations to display stickers showing the cost of federal carbon pricing is illegal and should be thrown out, a new lawsuit asserts.
Small-business lobby group sharpens criticism of Liberals' carbon-tax program
An organization of small-business owners that helped spearhead a public campaign against the Trudeau government's tax-change proposals for private corporations is sharpening its criticism of the Liberals' forthcoming carbon-tax program.
New gas plants should pay carbon levy on all emissions by 2030, advocates say
Climate-change advocates and renewable-fuel producers want Ottawa to make sure new natural-gas power plants have to pay a price for every ounce of their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030.