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The Alberta Energy Regulator suspended environmental monitoring in oilpatch in response to public-health concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada's oil producers could only sit and watch as the price of their product plummeted last month to less than what it costs to buy a litre of soda, hit by the double whammy of a COVID-19-induced drop in global demand and a production war between Russia and Saudi Arabia that flooded the market with more oil it didn't need.

A national ban on many single-use plastics is on track for next year after a government report concluded on Thursday, January 30, 2020, that there is more than enough evidence proving plastic pollution is harmful.

Quebec will expand its deposit system to include different kinds of alcohol and beverage containers in an effort to recycle more products and reduce the amount of waste going to landfills.

Two of three Ontario Superior Court judges determined the Ford government acted illegally when it killed the province’s cap-and-trade carbon price without doing legally mandated public consultations.

Some Canadian environment groups are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to put the brakes on attempts to seal a free trade agreement with Brazil until stronger policies to protect the Amazon rainforest are in place.

Doug Ford says the fate of Ontario's carbon tax court challenge will be decided after the federal election, raising the possibility that his government could end up abandoning the legal action.

The province's environment minister thinks the Trudeau government's offer to put carbon-tax revenue toward school renovations is patronizing: 'We're big boys and girls.'

The federal government and the provinces are expected to announce plans to work on harmonizing recycling standards following a meeting of environment ministers in Halifax today, June 27, 2019.

Alberta's premier says staff in the province's so-called energy "war room" will be able to quickly take on industry foes without government bureaucracy holding them back.

Greenpeace Canada's new executive director highlights zealous young generation of climate leaders. 

An analysis of Canada's plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it.

There is no treasure in Canada's trash and we need to stop heaping it onto the rest of the world, environment advocates say.

The federal government has issued no permits for Canadian companies to ship trash overseas since regulations changed three years ago but Canadian garbage is still showing up unwanted in Asian nations.

A new bar will soon be set on what counts as sustainable forestry, holding potential implications for the future of the woodland caribou and of the forestry industry itself.