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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is proposing Ottawa get into the crude-by-rail business — at least temporarily — so that producers in her province can get a better price for their oil.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says Canada's pathway to a clean energy future includes not only transitioning to renewable sources of energy but also technology that makes traditional fossil fuels cleaner to produce and burn.

Prince Edward Island could be the first province in Canada to ban retailers from giving out plastic bags after a private member's bill passed third reading on Friday, June 8, 2018, morning.

Companies selling fossil fuels are facing their Netflix moment, as cheap solar panels and electric vehicles are poised to do to coal-fired power stations and gas stations what online streaming did to Blockbuster.

A major French bank has joined a growing group of international businesses, schools and financial institutions that have pledged to go fossil fuel-free with their investments.

Canada's second largest pipeline company is considering whether to abandon a major crude oil expansion project due to stringent new climate change standards proposed by a federal regulator.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is spending the week in Montreal, where it will pool together the climate science expertise of its 195 member states.

In another sign the bloom is off the boom for the oilsands, the industry has returned almost one million hectares of northern Alberta exploration leases to the province over the past two years.

It’s a stunning retreat from key promises and statements made by the government since its election in 2015.

After spending up to $2,600 a day plus expenses for a high-profile lawyer to review Canada’s Arctic drilling law, the Trudeau government says it’s still figuring out what to do with his report.

The federal government has given Canada’s embattled pipeline regulator powers to monitor and authorize industry use of a toxic substance deployed during offshore oil spills.

Three dozen environmental groups from across Canada are calling on the government to suspend federal hearings into the Energy East pipeline and launch a public inquiry into the NEB's private meetings.

Dozens of major oil companies, including some industry leaders in Canada, are being summoned in an international investigation for allegedly causing human rights impacts linked to climate change.

Whistleblowers penned a letter to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission claiming the energy watchdog withheld information that could protect Canadians from a nuclear disaster.

"Today there continues an existential threat to this industry," Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said in a speech at the Calgary Petroleum Club.