Clean energy

Opposite tactics, opposite results. As the U.K. racks up climate wins, Canada might want to take notes.

In March, Trump ordered a review of the Clean Power Plan, which seeks to reduce emissions from coal power plants, and the lifting of a moratorium on the sale of coal mining leases on federal lands.

Former U.S. president Barack Obama's relentless, progressive approach hit home with Canadians seeking refuge from the protectionist zeitgeist south of the border.

With President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, China and California signed an agreement on Tues. June 6, 2017, to work together on reducing emissions.

It can be tempting to succumb to pessimism in a world touched by human consumption, but on World Environment Day, two prominent climate leaders are spreading a resounding message of hope.

"They installed too much too fast," said Qiao Liming, China director for the Global Wind Energy Council.

An annual International Renewable Energy Agency report tallied 9.8 million clean energy sector jobs globally in 2015-2016, including 3.1 million jobs in the solar PV sector.

If you want to make meaningful progress on climate change, you have to get big money out of politics, says German energy analyst Arne Jungjohann.

The oil and gas industry says controlling for methane will be costly and burdensome. One company disagrees.

If passed by California legislators, the new system would begin in January 2021, but there is no guarantee it will be adopted.

Wind and geothermal companies are taking their businesses elsewhere because they can’t compete with Site C's projected cheap output, says Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver.

The federal government invested $1.8 billion in clean technology but the largest chunks of that money isn’t available until 2019.

Béa Johnson, widely-credited as the founder of the movement towards zero-waste living, proudly shows off the single jar of trash her family of four produced in 2016.

"We’ve clearly left the science project stage and the technology is viable," said Charles Freese, who heads GM’s fuel cell business.

Atlantic Canadian premiers pledged co-operation to grow the region's clean energy sector, following a meeting today, April 12, 2017, in Saint John, N.B.