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.
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.