fossil fuel

The second fire in six months at U.S. Steel's massive coke plant outside Pittsburgh knocked a key pollution control system offline on Monday, June 17, 2019, triggering a health warning as officials monitored the air around the plant for signs of a release of toxic sulfur dioxide.

“You can’t solve climate change by just checking a box.”

As economics challenge coal’s future, Wyoming passes a law to prop it up.

Three of Canada's top environmental scientists want the federal government to listen harder to what their studies are saying about the future.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says Canada has no immediate plans to follow Europe's lead and increase its target for cutting emissions.

A burgeoning middle class and a warming world will result in energy demand for cooling overtaking that for heating by the middle of the century, researchers have predicted.

Following the National Energy Board's projection that Canadians' fossil fuel use will peak in 2019, then decline, Alberta's environment minister says the province — known for its oil production — will have a big stake in an energy future that shifts to renewables.

The National Energy Board expects fossil fuel use to peak in the next two years, then decline as a mix of carbon pricing policies and climate-friendly technologies push Canadians to make different choices.

A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

More than 300 people gathered in Montreal to urge a leading institutional investor in charge of most Quebec public pensions to divest from fossil fuels.

Canada's push to get climate change action included in a revamped NAFTA is turning into a heated domestic dispute just as it makes its debut at the official negotiating table.

U.S. allies around the world sounded alarms on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, as President Donald Trump seemed close to pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate accord.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, April 28, 2017 aimed at expanding drilling in the Arctic and opening other federal areas to oil and gas exploration.

Environmental groups to go to court to fight an executive order from President Donald Trump that eliminates many restrictions on fossil fuel production and would roll back plans to curb global warming

Emissions have been creeping up since BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark took over, says Andrew Weaver.