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Focus on Environment and Climate Change Canada

A person carries an umbrella for shade as they walk on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, as temperatures hit 32C in what meteorologists are calling a heat dome. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Global temperatures this year to rival 2024’s record-breaking heat: climate officials

Global temperatures in 2025 are forecasted to rival 2024's record-breaking heat, highlighting the urgency of climate action.

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Opinion: Mark Carney has given us a sensible next step after the carbon tax. We need to take it.

If the “polluter should pay,” the rich should be paying more. Make the carbon tax progressive and pair it with regulations supported by...

ents from a tailings pond is pictured going down the Hazeltine Creek into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C. on August, 5, 2014. Charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than 10 years after a tailings pond collapsed the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of waste water into B.C. Interior waterways. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Fifteen fisheries charges laid a decade after Mount Polley dam breached in B.C.

Imperial Metals faces 15 federal Fisheries Act charges over Mount Polley mine disaster, a decade after the dam collapse.

People make their way through the falling snow in downtown Ottawa, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Environment Canada says winter will be more normal but still warmer than usual

Environment Canada says climate change is causing Canada's temperatures to rise at a rate that's about twice the global rate of warming.

Suncor's base plant is shown in Fort McMurray Alta, on Monday June 13, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Frans
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First Nations in Alberta want Impact Assessment Act review for Pathways Alliance project

Eight Alberta First Nations urge federal review of $16.5B Pathways carbon capture project over environmental and health risks.

FILE PHOTO: Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault attends a press conference at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo
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Canada environment minister warns oil and gas companies against withholding emissions data

Canada wants oil and gas firms to report emissions data — but Alberta's premier has another plan in mind.

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Community wealth building is a strategy for Canada’s transition to net zero

Local ownership, democratic control, and a balanced distribution of wealth can play a critical role in advancing Canada’s net-zero objectives.

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Enserva’s President and CEO, Gurpreet Lail, issued the following statement in response to the Government of Canada’s draft oil and gas sector emission cap regulations

November 4 2004 The government’s proposed emissions cap is a production chokehold in disguise. By imposing these overreaching restrictions, they’re not just capping...

A person sits on the beach under a colourful umbrella as sail boats pass in Vancouver on July 7, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
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Canada’s new tool to study how climate change has shifted the odds of extreme cold weather

Canada will analyze how climate change affects extreme cold, expanding a system that found climate change fueled summer heat waves.

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