fossil fuels

After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill on Friday, August 12, 2022, that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.

A break in the middle of the day can give us a chance to rest — as well as reduce our toll on the planet.

The 670-kilometre pipeline, which aims to carry natural gas across the province to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, is already about 70 per cent complete, Poirier said. Until Thursday, the pipeline's cost estimate stood at $6.6 billion.

The relentless rise of fossil fuel burning in Canada is leaving climate-safe energy alternatives — and climate hope — far behind. And columnist Barry Saxifrage has the charts to prove it.

The city is tagging on to a larger campaign, Sue Big Oil, which is a collection of local governments across British Columbia banding together for a class action lawsuit, arguing fossil fuel companies should help municipalities recoup climate-related costs.

Experts call on U.K. officials to prepare for periods of extreme heat or risk thousands of excess deaths.

The pressing global need to slash emissions in the face of a growing climate crisis is driving renewed interest in nuclear power — and few places more so than in Canada's oilsands.

The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation holds a total of $199.6 billion in managed assets and oversees retirement savings for the province's teachers, nurses, municipal workers and other government workers, according to its site.

António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.

Since launching our Financing Disaster series, we’ve heard from readers who want to know more about switching banks. How do you get your money out? What should you do first? What things are important to consider when you’re making a move?

Environmentalists are warning that slow-release nitrogen fertilizers, central to Canada's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on farms, are filling fields with microscopic plastic pollution.

In December 2020, the government challenged Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau's ministry to reduce emissions from artificial nitrogen fertilizers by 30 per cent by 2030. Soon after, Canada's $23-billion fertilizer industry jumped into action to make sure the new rules won't hurt its bottom line.

Let us be clear: Europe and Ukraine do not need your gas. We need more clean, affordable, accessible and transparent energy policies, ones based on the best available science and technology — not on vested interests.

As a society, we need to acknowledge the tradeoffs of all these options for achieving net-zero and discuss what impacts we will accept.

It’s clear that decisions about Enbridge's Line 5 are not made in a vacuum. They have been heavily influenced by external lobbying efforts.