OTTAWA, Ont. - The Government of Canada today announced that regulations requiring an average renewable fuel content of five per cent in gasoline have been finalized and will come into effect starting December 15, 2010.
"Today we are fulfilling the Government's commitment to require...
CHURCHILL, MAN. – Canada’s new Arctic research station will turn a spotlight on the environmental challenge that is transforming vast regions of the north – climate change.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Tuesday that will be one mission of the new northern...
Washington (IANS) India and the United States Friday initialled an agreement for setting up a Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centre to foster innovation and joint efforts to accelerate deployment of clean energy technologies.
The agreement was initialled by the Indian...
BARROW, Alaska --The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is holding field hearings in Barrow on the effects of climate change. The message from the Arctic is that Alaska needs more resources and more understanding from decision-makers in the nation's capital.
Barrow residents already know...
WASHINGTON — The US East Coast is sweltering in a record-hot summer but it could endure twice as many sweaty days by mid-century without action on climate change, an environmental group said Wednesday.
The US capital, Washington, is on track for 50 days in 2010 in which the mercury...
Paul Waldie, from Thursday's Globe and Mail
More than 300 scientists from around the world, including several Canadians, hope to blunt some growing skepticism about climate change with a new report that says global warming is a fact and the Earth is hotter than ever.
“The...
British Columbia's largest industries today will get their first look at proposed new regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions.
The province's climate action secretariat will release two papers, one proposing details of a B.C. emissions trading regulation and one a B.C. carbon...
The federal Conservative government says it is pleased to learn Canada’s three largest provinces are working independently with two U.S. states to introduce a cap-and-trade system that would put a price tag on greenhouse-gas emissions.
But critics say the government is happy only...
Canada's three largest provinces are forging ahead on a cap-and-trade system to stem global warming emissions, a move made just after a similar plan was abandoned by the U.S. Senate.
The system, set to start in January, 2012, would cap emissions on large industrial facilities in Ontario,...
WASHINGTON — The Government of Canada is delivering on its commitment to clean energy technology development while strengthening its collaboration with the U.S. as part of the Canada–U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue. The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources, and...