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White House officials, Capitol Hill lawmakers and the U.S. secretary of energy have all expressed "significant sympathy" for the plight of Canada's Line 5 pipeline, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Thursday, May 12, 2022, after a day of meetings in the U.S. capital.

The Liberal government is spending $3.5 million on two projects to improve abortion access in Canada, as the re-emergence of the landmark Roe v. Wade case in the United States brings renewed attention to the issue on both sides of the border.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made energy independence more important than ever during a climate conference in South Florida on Monday, May 9, 2022.

Liberal lawmakers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are vowing to defend access to legal abortions, but the issue's divergent and divisive history in each country guarantees they'll go about it in very different ways.

Rescinding the constitutional right to an abortion would be just the beginning, President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, as the world confronted anew the possibility that women in the United States are poised to lose the right to choose.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada and the United States will continue to exert "maximum pressure" on Russia in response to its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Canada's defence minister joined top military and defence leaders from 40 countries at Germany's Ramstein air base to work out ways to sustain military help for Ukraine.

The Biden administration is scrapping old−fashioned incandescent light bulbs, speeding an ongoing trend toward more efficient lighting that officials say will save households, schools and businesses billions of dollars a year.

President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.

The hotly debated transmission buildout divided environmentalists, but experts say it was the only real hope for the state's — and the country's — climate goals.

One year ago, Joe Biden marked his first Earth Day as president by convening world leaders for a virtual summit on global warming that even Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping attended. Biden used the moment to nearly double the United States’ goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vaulting the country to the front lines in the fight against climate change.

Heavy winds kicked up a towering wall of flames outside a northern Arizona tourist town on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, ripping through two-dozen structures and sending residents of more than 700 homes scrambling to flee.

Big businesses set splashy climate targets but don’t always reveal their data. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to change that — to protect investors.

“Whoopers” are the world's rarest cranes. There are about 500 birds in the natural flock, which was down to 15 in 1941.

“I’m not a scientist. I’m a mom who cares,” she said. “We have got to be better stewards of the environment and while reducing carbon emissions is necessary, injecting them into the basin is not the answer.”