Environment and Climate Change Canada

"Now is exactly the time to be talking about extreme weather, climate and resilience," Catherine McKenna told a climate change scientist on Twitter on Monday. "Failing to do so is irresponsible."

Catherine McKenna talks climate change with a classroom full of kids in a Gatineau elementary school to present her department's new website. Is it any good?

He became a poster boy of government muzzling in the Harper era. Two years later, the advice he sent management is still being considered by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"The times of oil companies asking the public to trust them are over," said one Washington State oil spill response official in documents obtained by National Observer.

No matter what obstacles arise during negotiations, veteran diplomat Jennifer MacIntyre says it's important to "just keep talking."

Some species of North American hummingbirds are in severe decline and a British Columbia research scientist says one possible cause might be the same insecticide affecting honey bees.

Manitoba became the second province on Thursday, June 29, 2017, to raise the spectre of a court challenge against the federal government's carbon-pricing plan.

Nearly 50 municipalities from Cape Breton to Vancouver will test their climate action chops this year through a series of groundbreaking clean energy projects.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been given until the end of 2017 to sign on to Ottawa's national climate change agreement to avoid losing out on millions of dollars to help cut emissions.

Legislation to enact a federal carbon pricing plan expected spring 2018, but revenue questions are still unanswered.

The carbon tax, or cap−and−trade equivalent, will have to go up by $10 a year, rising to $50 a tonne by the end of 2022.

“Access to information is critical to the auditor general’s ability to do his or her job,” said auditor general Michael Ferguson on Tuesday.

The dam hasn’t seen this much action since 1993, the last time Lake Ontario was this high. But the system can only handle so much.

Federal government scientists say they have devised an accurate way to directly measure air pollutants from oilsands mines.

An Ontario waste disposal company is fighting a court order to destroy documents that the federal government says were accidentally released through access to information legislation.