OTTAWA - Delays in regulating greenhouse gas emissions mean Canada is quickly locking in old-fashioned infrastructure that will fill the air with carb...

While Minister Kent has a strong incentive to coordinate a national approach, he may lack the political and public support. Climate change lacks urgency. Everyday Canadians are not threatened by the negative impacts of climate change in the same way that baby boomers are immediately concerned with old age pension.

OTTAWA - The federal government still has no solid plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and it’s almost certainly too late for it to recover in t...

Federally owned contaminated sites will cost the government billions of dollars to clean up, according to the 2012 report of Canada's env...

Opposition MPs are angry with the government for proposing major environmental policy changes in the budget implementation bill introduce...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's advisers on environment and the economy may have lost all their funding, but they're not about to retreat quietly.The National Round...

The most serious threat to our future is the climate crisis. A responsible government would be working to reduce fossil fuel dependence and maximize jobs in energy efficiency retrofits, conservation, and investments in renewable energy. This budget does not even mention climate change.

This week the House Committee for the Environment issued a pre-ordained set of recommendations to further destroy environmental review. After 35 years of working on environmental assessment, I am watching the current government weaken the process to less than we had in 1977.

A report from the Commons environment committee has government MPs calling for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to be "modernize...

VANCOUVER - For almost three weeks after David Tarasick published findings about one of the largest ozone holes ever discovered above the Arctic, the ...

A new bill that would require telecommunications providers to give police subscriber information without a warrant will likely be challen...

Leading atmospheric scientists are warning that Canada's cuts to its ozone monitoring program are already having effects on the world's a...

A former Quebec politician is planning legal action against the Conservative government for pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, calling th...

Say what you will, but Mulcair has bonafides in the environmental field and as Canada abandons international climate accords like Kyoto, any opposition leader -- let alone Prime Minister -- needs to understand the environment file deeply, and the role our environment plays in our economic future.