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G7 countries reaffirm commitment to limit global heating to 1.5 C after nearly two days of wrangling last week.

It's make-it-or-break-it time for the federal government's national price on pollution.

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there is no path to eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions that doesn't include phasing out coal power, but critics say Canada's leadership is tainted as long as this country keeps exporting thermal coal.

The strange Ohio case offers juicy details on how corporations block environmental campaigns.

The short-term prospects for wind and solar power look rocky amid the economic upheaval of the coronavirus. But long term, renewables could emerge stronger than ever, especially if governments integrate support for clean energy into Covid-19 economic-recovery programs.

From tar sands oil to aviation, global business sectors have called for suspension of environmental protections

Shift to gas saved more than 300m tons of planet-heating carbon dioxide as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide levels dropped

Compare the annual waste produced by a coal-burning power plant and a nuclear generating station.

Renewable energy is competing in ways that few imagined. In India renewables are cheaper than coal — something which will have a huge impact on climate change.

With Trump expected to skip the UN climate summit, the question will be: what’s possible if the most powerful nation is pulling away from action?

The mayor of a southeastern Saskatchewan city says he's frustrated by a lack of government announcements on the future of a technology that would allow coal-fired power plants to stay open.

Democrats launched a sweeping plan Thursday to transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy, signalling its likely elevation as a central campaign issue in 2020 despite President Donald Trump's failure to mention climate change in his State of the Union address.

Canada's export development bank is getting entirely out of the coal game but will continue to fund the oil and gas sector as the world transitions towards cleaner sources of energy.

States with a history of fighting air pollution generated by coal-fired power plants on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, criticized a move by President Donald Trump's administration to scale back federal restrictions on emissions, with some threatening court challenges.

The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.