By Heather Smith Time to get excited, everyone: There’s a freshly leaked document from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in town, courtesy of the Peruvian website Redge.org. The mega-secretive, three-years-in-the-making international trade deal that would create a NAFTA-style agreement among the […]
By Geoff Dembicki We’re not totally screwed. I doubt Ethan Zindler would use those exact words to describe the rapid global transition to cleaner forms of energy he’s spent the past eight years or so tracking for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. […]
By Kevin Grandia There is a brewing controversy swirling around longtime CBC commentator Rex Murphy and his relationship with Canada’s oil industry. As long time readers of DeSmog know, Murphy has been a vocal supporter of the oilsands industry and […]
By Mitch Potter WASHINGTON—Canada’s lobbying campaign for the Keystone XL pipeline took an unexpected blow Wednesday when a Nebraska judge struck down an industry-friendly law used to determine its path through the state, leaving the project in regulatory limbo. The […]
By Cameron Fenton One of most unpredictable and dangerous impacts of climate change is the threat it poses to our ability to grow and harvest food across Canada and around the globe. The lead author of a 2013 report on […]
By Mychaylo Prystupa On Jan.17, on his weekly spot on CBC’s The National, Rex Murphy slammed Neil Young for what he called the rockstar’s “unfathomably irresponsible” comments against Alberta’s oil sands. But what the famous Newfoundlander did not reveal on […]
By Paul Thacker Last Friday, InsideClimate News revealed yet another possible conflict of interest in the ongoing drama surrounding the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. It turns out that “the analysis of greenhouse-gas emission presented by the State Department in […]
By Joe Romm Secretary of State John Kerry gave perhaps his strongest climate speechin Indonesia Sunday. He called climate change the “world’s most fearsome” weapon of mass destruction and said “the science of climate change is leaping out at us […]
The war against the fight to save the planet We are alarmed about the recent CBC report that the Canada Revenue Agency is targeting a number of environmental groups – all members of Climate Action Network Canada – for costly […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Ottawa, February 13, 2014]: Joining with leading experts in climate change, Climate Action Network Canada is drawing attention to the implications of climate change for severe weather events such as the major winter storm currently battering the […]
