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At a summit in Hungary last month organized by the right wing Heritage Foundation and Danube Institute, head of the Canadian Gas Association Timothy Egan delivered a pro-fossil fuel, anti-climate change speech that railed against the push to cut emissions.

Companies that make plastic argue there is no need for caps, because alternatives to plastics are often more expensive and energy-intensive.

Micro and nanoplastics are implicated in health deficits and disorders, including heart attacks and Parkinson’s disease.

The federal government announced a new registry to track plastic production to set the tone as negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty kick off on April 23 in Ottawa.

Representatives from around the world are in Ottawa to negotiate a legally binding treaty to eliminate plastic pollution by 2040. But after a previous meeting went off the rails, pressure is now on delegates to make up for lost time in what promises to be one of the most important environmental weeks of the year.

Most Canadians support a crackdown on single-use plastics and less plastic production, a new poll indicates just weeks before international negotiations kick off in Ottawa on a global plastics treaty.

Such a summit would have been unthinkable a dozen years ago in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but a warming planet creating a need to phase out fossil fuels and war in Ukraine laying bare a dependence on Russian energy have turned the tables over the past half decade.

As they marched through the streets in 2019, Ashley Torres and Louis Couillard did not expect a protest would alter the trajectory of their lives.

On Wednesday, Greenpeace Canada inflated a giant owl on the Rideau Hall grounds near Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s residence to demand movement on a promised nature protection law.

In the clean energy transition, labour unions and the climate movement are finding that they're stronger together.

Doug Ford’s government is pledging to reverse an Ontario Energy Board decision that would disincentivize the use of gas in new housing developments.

Dutch bank ING says it is accelerating its phasing out of funding for oil and gas exploration and production activities while it increases financing for renewable energy.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived at a London court on Wednesday, Nov. 15. 2023, for a hearing over a public order offense after she was arrested last month at a demonstration against a major oil and gas industry conference.

Global energy giant BP, one of Britain’s biggest and most recognizable companies, is scurrying to find a new chief executive after CEO Bernard Looney became the latest corporate leader to step down amid questions about his personal conduct.

An artwork by renowned Canadian artist Tom Thomson at the National Gallery in Ottawa was splattered with paint on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, as part of a protest against the federal government's response to wildfires.