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A new office in the U.S. Department of Justice will take on polluters in hard-hit communities.

White House officials, Capitol Hill lawmakers and the U.S. secretary of energy have all expressed "significant sympathy" for the plight of Canada's Line 5 pipeline, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Thursday, May 12, 2022, after a day of meetings in the U.S. capital.

Rescinding the constitutional right to an abortion would be just the beginning, President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, as the world confronted anew the possibility that women in the United States are poised to lose the right to choose.

President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't going to provide more details about his government's pledge to send a new round of military aid to Ukraine — at least not yet.

One year ago, Joe Biden marked his first Earth Day as president by convening world leaders for a virtual summit on global warming that even Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping attended. Biden used the moment to nearly double the United States’ goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vaulting the country to the front lines in the fight against climate change.

From carbon capture and hydrogen development to the accelerated rollout of wind and solar power and rapid electrification of transportation systems, the federal government has laid out an ambitious roadmap to get Canada to its climate target of cutting emissions by 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero emissions by 2050.

Russia vowed to continue its bloody offensive in Ukraine as the war neared its seventh week on Wednesday, April 12, 2022, as President Vladimir Putin insisted the campaign was going as planned despite a major withdrawal and significant losses.

In the past, the price of failing to address climate change seemed theoretical, decades down the line. Today, we’ve already begun paying for it.

NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy was also sentenced to five years probation after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Western nations expelled dozens more of Moscow's diplomats and weighed further sanctions as they expressed their revulsion at what they say are war crimes.

Russia's blocking of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and its bombing of medical facilities should be the subjects of an international war crimes investigation, says Canada's international development minister.

A delegation of Ukrainian lawmakers visited Washington on Wednesday to push for more U.S. assistance, saying their nation needs more military equipment, more financial help and tougher sanctions against Russia.

With the last nine, unscripted words of an impassioned speech about Russia's aggression in Ukraine, President Joe Biden created a troubling distraction, undermining his effectiveness as he returned home to face restive Americans who strongly disapprove of his performance on issues that matter most to them.

Amid rapidly shifting geopolitical sands, Canada and the United States unveiled plans on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, to work more closely in the nebulous world of cybersecurity, including on a long-awaited deal to make it easier to navigate each other's data privacy laws in criminal investigations.