fossil fuel subsidies

Two years after the auditor general concluded that the Trudeau government had failed to identify its subsidies for the oil and gas industry, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says federal officials are still working on it.

As climate change warms the oceans and melts polar ice, rising the seas and provoking extreme storms, G7 members have found themselves unable to share basic facts about their promise to kill off government handouts to carbon-polluting industries.

The federal government has taken a step towards fulfilling it's promise to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies by agreeing to finally explain how much it actually spends on them.

Alexandra Mendès said she wasn’t trying to hide anything by introducing a motion to move a committee studying fossil fuel subsidies behind closed doors.

The government has had eight years to come up with a list of actions and timelines to deliver on the commitment made by former prime minister Stephen Harper at the 2009 G20 summit.

Young leaders highlighted nine key actions in Marrakech that they say the Liberal government must take so that its climate change goals do not become empty rhetoric.

A study suggests Canada's attempts to set a price on carbon are being undercut by subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry.

With up to $500 million at stake, a controversial review of Arctic oil exploration initiated by Conservatives and big oil companies will proceed, the Liberal government has announced.

A new paper says the cuts to Canada's public service were deep and ideologically driven, but the Liberals must restore staffing in order to follow through on its programs