Laurel Collins

Canada set a high bar globally when the country announced new standards Monday to crack down on planet-warming methane emissions, say observers.

Whether open revolt or just the way caucuses work, Atlantic MPs got Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to change course on the carbon tax. What comes next?

This week, average global temperatures are smashing records left and right, which “should fill everyone with anxiety,” says Green Party deputy leader Jonathan Pedneault. 

Subsidizing fossil fuels while committing to slash greenhouse gas emissions is like trying to push a boulder both up and down a mountain at the same time, so why can't Canada get a plan in place?

As the world stares down an ongoing and rapidly worsening climate crisis, wealthy countries like Canada must hit the “fast-forward button” and push up their net-zero emissions deadlines to 2040, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said Monday.

A national biodiversity group says Canada needs to keep genetically engineered animals out of the wild, after the federal government recently rejected several attempts to strengthen its existing laws.

MPs are questioning the federal government about its sizable investments in carbon capture following new research on the state of the technology in Canada.

The federal government is playing a dangerous game by refusing to force any company that makes or uses toxic chemicals to have a plan in place to prevent them from getting into the environment, a lawyer for the Canadian Environmental Law Association says.

Canadian politicians and civil society groups are decrying the United Arab Emirates’ decision to have an oil company CEO lead this year’s international climate talks.

An international deal to protect 30 per cent of nature by 2030 nearly unravelled in Montreal Monday, but ultimately COP15 landed a historic agreement.

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup costs of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided.

On Monday, Environment and Climate Change Canada launched consultations on how to best cap and curb oil and gas sector emissions, teeing up a political battle.

Canada's new emissions standards for gasoline and diesel will allow oil companies that get a federal tax break for installing carbon capture and storage systems to also generate credits based on those systems, which they can then sell to refineries and fuel importers.

Secret reports the federal government is relying on to argue the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is commercially viable are based on the unrealistic assumption the pipeline will operate for 100 years, Canada’s financial watchdog told Canada’s National Observer.

MPs fired scathing remarks at Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday over the federal government’s decision to put $10 billion in taxpayer dollars on the line to finance the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.