Steven Guilbeault

MPs lambasted federal and provincial governments in question period Friday for failing to hold polluting corporations accountable in the wake of tailings leaks in northern Alberta.

Alberta's nine-month silence over two releases of toxic oilsands tailings water is "worrisome," says federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.

Praise poured in from Canadian environmental groups on Sunday, March 5, 2023, for a newly signed treaty that will help protect biodiversity in the high seas, where conservation efforts across vast stretches of the planet have historically been hampered by a confusing patchwork of laws.

Federal politicians have joined the chorus of anger over Imperial Oil’s failure to alert a downriver First Nations community of a massive release of oilsands tailings first reported last May.

Nova Scotia says the Donkin mine is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter in the province, behind Nova Scotia Power.

Canada has joined ranks with nearly a dozen nations calling for a moratorium or pause on deep-sea mining in both domestic and international waters to protect ocean ecosystems.

Canada is promising to establish 10 new Indigenous-led federal marine protected areas as IMPAC5, a global summit on ocean conservation, kicks off Friday in Vancouver.

Federal politicians are expected to make a significant announcement on ocean protection during an international conference in Vancouver on how to take action on promises to protect the marine world made at recent global environment meetings.

For more than a decade, a proposal to build a cement plant has hung over one rural Ontario village like a black cloud.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is using the skills he honed in the trenches as an environmental activist to push climate policy. But will it be enough for the crisis at hand?

Oilsands executives insist they are all in on cutting emissions and will make big investments in green technology, but they maintain there isn't a place to invest that money yet.

Human Rights Watch says more than two dozen First Nations remain under long-term drinking water advisories, despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to bring that number down to zero. 

Five days after Steven Guilbeault was appointed Canada's environment minister in October 2021, he headed to Scotland for the annual United Nations climate talks being held in Glasgow.

The federal government has decided not to require a federal assessment for a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) proposed by New Brunswick Power at Point Lepreau, prompting criticism from experts opposed to the technology who fear the rejection sets an “unfortunate precedent.”

The federal and British Columbia governments have rejected a proposed open-pit coal mine over its environmental impacts.