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Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault  joins  Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson and fellow colleagues as they hold a press conference in Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024.  Oil and gas producers in Canada will be required to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about one-third over the next eight years under new regulations being published today by Guilbeault.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Canada’s oil, gas companies told to cut emissions by one-third under planned cap

Oil and gas producers in Canada to cut greenhouse gas emissions by one-third in eight years under new draft regulations.

servative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Canada’s Liberals won’t prorogue Parliament as impasse over green tech fund documents drags on

Deputy PM Freeland denies plans to prorogue Parliament amid Tory impasse over unredacted documents from a green tech fund.

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Canada’s budget watchdog: EVs cheaper to run but costs must come down to drive sales up fast enough

A new analysis suggests it's already cheaper to operate electric vehicles than their similar gas-powered cousins, but the savings must get substantially higher...

More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that. A helicopter flies over the Athabasca River near Fort McMurray, Alta., Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Ottawa funds health study for Indigenous communities downstream of northern Alberta oilsands

Ottawa is funding the study to assess health impacts from oilsands pollution in northern Alberta, addressing Indigenous leaders' concerns raised over 30 years...

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux says he was not "muzzled" by the federal Liberals over economic data related to the impact of carbon pricing. Giroux, centre, waits to appear before the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs (SECD) at the Senate in the Parliamentary Precinct of Ottawa, on Monday, June 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Canada’s parliamentary budget officer says Liberals not muzzling him over carbon price data

Canada's parliamentary budget officer says he is not being "muzzled" by the federal Liberals over economic data related to the impact of carbon...

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 13, 2024. Canada's greenhouse gas emissions will be 12 per cent lower in 2030 with carbon pricing in place than they will be if the pricing system for consumers and big industry were to be scrapped, new federal data published Thursday suggests. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
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Canadian government releases carbon pricing impact data as cost debate rages

Newly published data suggests Canada's greenhouse-gas emissions will be 12 per cent lower in 2030 with carbon pricing in place than they would...

A vehicle is seen among downed power lines and utility poles after a major storm on Merivale Road in Ottawa on Saturday, May 21, 2022. The Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation initiative will offer up to $1 million to local governments for projects that upgrade or adjust their infrastructure and natural environment to be more protected from extreme weather events including floods, fires and major storms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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$530M fund for Canadian cities to adapt to climate change

Canadian cities and towns battling the effects of climate change will share more than half a billion dollars from a new federal fund

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Canada mulls Chinese EV tariff following U.S. move but is not committing to it

Canada is looking at the massive new U.S. import tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles imposed by President Joe Biden earlier this month, but...

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is ordering all petrochemical companies which operate in Sarnia, Ont., to take steps to control leaks of the cancer-causing chemical benzene. A petrochemical plant is seen in Sarnia, Ont., Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
EnvironmentNewsPolitics

Feds order benzene leak fixes in Sarnia, Ontario, after plastic pollution

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is ordering all petrochemical companies in Sarnia, Ontario, to control leaks of the chemical benzene

Smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire fills the air and nearly blocks out the sun as people take in the view of Okanagan Lake from Tugboat Beach, in Kelowna, B.C., on August 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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‘The whole country is not on fire’: Canadian tourism industry struggles as wildfires rage

Beth Potter, president of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada, says many international visitors see a headline about wildfires in one part of...

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