Laurel Collins

Thermal coal contains significant amounts of mercury, which can threaten the development of unborn babies, and accumulate in bodies and aquatic food chains. 

Oil and gas companies are making record breaking profits, but failing to invest in meaningful decarbonization. On Thursday, the House of Commons environment committee took their executives to task.

Laurel Collins says she hopes the polarized House of Commons will continue to put partisanship aside to pass her bill to criminalize coercive control this week, after hearing hundreds of personal stories about intimate partner violence.

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in late 2015, RBC, Scotiabank, TD, BMO and CIBC have pumped approximately $1.2 trillion into fossil fuel companies like Enbridge, TC Energy and Trans Mountain.

Days after Ottawa proposed weakening the Impact Assessment Act, NDP environment and climate change critic Laurel Collins is warning abandoning greenhouse gas emissions from federal reviews of major projects is a dereliction of responsibility.

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre continues to evade questions about whether he would axe the carbon pricing system for industrial emitters if he forms the next government.

The federal government provided at least $18.5 billion to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries last year, according to a new report by Environmental Defence.

Burning coal remains one of the most significant drivers of climate change. Time is running out, both for humanity and the commitments of the federal government.

Canadian exports of the kind of coal used to make electricity hit an eight-year high in 2022, even as the Liberals have promised to work on banning exports completely by the end of the decade.

The federal government faced fierce external pressure to abandon or weaken its plan to cap oil and gas sector emissions from provincial governments and industry lobby groups in the lead-up to its announcement last week.

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.