fossil fuels

MP Charlie Angus has been "inundated" with death threats, swearing and homophobic slurs over his proposal to curb greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry. 

Joanna Depledge said Kerry will be remembered as “a force for good in the negotiations,” turning the page on low points, such as previous U.S. administrations pulling out — twice — from international climate agreements.

A recent report by the non-profit Center for Climate Integrity chronicles a “decades-long campaign of fraud and deception” from Big Oil and the plastics industry to promote recycling as a solution to the plastic pollution crisis.

Despite progress to improve climate policies, some of Canada’s largest pension funds are still moving too slowly and betting unwisely against the energy transition, a new report indicates.

Oil giants like Exxon have long used the Big Tobacco Playbook to protect their industry from challenge. And up until now, they have gotten away with it.

A new private member’s bill is taking aim at fossil fuel companies using the same tactics that forced Big Tobacco to stop advertising.

The move by the world’s largest public relations company, uncovered by tax records, alarms climate advocates.

The relentless technological advances have seen innovations such as solar panels progress from simply heating water for residential swimming pools to utility-scale solar farms.

Conservatives are using familiar cold weather power disruptions to attack the clean-energy transition.

The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiralling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” during 2024, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned.

"Right now, wind is generating almost no power. When renewables are unreliable, as they are now, natural gas plants must increase capacity to keep Albertans safe," Alberta Premier Danielle Smith posted on social media Friday, shortly after the province's grid operator issued an appeal for consumers to conserve electricity to protect the system.

Visiting Alaska is an emissions-heavy prospect. An innovative program in Juneau has tourists ease that by helping buy heat pumps for locals.

Canadians aren’t to blame for wildfires, so why is climate support being framed in terms of individual responsibility?

One of the biggest climate stories in Canada in 2024 might well prove to be a project that, so far at least, few in the country have heard of — Ksi Lisims LNG.

CO2 released by burning biogas from cow manure is counted as an emission reduction, rather than a climate pollutant, and multiple state programs in the U.S. are taking credit for the cuts that some see as phantoms.