greenhouse-gas emissions

Big greenhouse-gas emitters will be able to take advantage of new federal tax incentives Finance Minister Bill Morneau promised on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, even if that means more emissions, the government says.

Climate-change advocates and renewable-fuel producers want Ottawa to make sure new natural-gas power plants have to pay a price for every ounce of their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030.

The White House proposed dramatically weakening fuel economy standards on Thursday, reversing the only major federal policy to reduce planet-warming emissions from the nation’s top source of greenhouse gas pollution.

A United Nations group is approving standards for measuring how much airlines need to reduce the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions from planes.