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While he hasn’t released an official plan, Trump’s playbook the last time he was in office and his frequent complaints about clean energy offer clues to what’s ahead.
The UK has banned tobacco adverts at sports games since 2002. There is no equivalent for climate-wreckers.
Creating sustainable jobs that are regionally accessible, locally meaningful and economically desirable is the next big hurdle for Canadian policymakers aiming for a net-zero energy economy.
The fossil fuel industry uses universities to authenticate themselves as players in developing climate solutions, while they expand extraction and grow profits. Universities must disclose their ties.
Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz made the assertion on ABC’s Q&A on Monday night. What exactly did he mean, and does the claim stack up?
The Keystone XL verdict highlights the importance of protecting governments and public bodies from financial liabilities while they work to keep oil and gas in the ground.
Australia’s largest oil and gas company wants to drill for gas under a pristine coral reef.
The dispute between the Blueberry River First Nations and the government of B.C. reveals deeper issues with imposed Indigenous governance systems.
A green new deal is practical, politically possible, and the best chance we have to achieve a just carbon-zero transition in Canada.
Instead of training high school students for an industry that the world is transitioning away from, we need education on energy alternatives and ways of addressing climate change impacts.
By pledging no new fossil fuel licenses, the UK Labour party could aid a new international norm.
Environmentalists have long been sceptical of carbon capture and storage, which began in the oil and gas industry. But there’s nothing else like it for storing emissions from industry.
A major report in the U.S. finds damning evidence of decades of deceit by American oil and gas companies. The situation in Canada is likely not much different.
The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline is a bad deal for Canadians, the federal government and our planet. The only question now is how best to mitigate the damage.
While governments are often blamed for a perceived ‘unjust transition,’ it is actually the industry itself which poses the biggest threat to the future of oil and gas workers.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can leak from oil and gas wells, pipelines and landfills. Satellites can spot the releases fast enough to get them fixed and help protect the climate.
While some countries are more likely than others to sign an international agreement to phase out fossil fuels, measures to tackle fossil fuel demand by adding a higher carbon price are essential.
Never mind the carbon tax. Tax breaks and public spending for fossil fuel companies cost taxpayers billions every year and hurt the environment.
Bill C-372 does not curtail free speech and, if anything, demonstrates how banning fossil fuel ads does not go nearly far enough.
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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