Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to make global action on climate change and sustainable economic development a main thrust of Canada's upcoming year as president of the G7.

President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement is disappointing, but the world is marching inexorably towards a greener future with or without the US, says McKenna

Air pollution cost Canadian families an estimated $36 billion in 2015 due to premature death and illness, a new research report says.

The carbon tax, or cap−and−trade equivalent, will have to go up by $10 a year, rising to $50 a tonne by the end of 2022.

A federal Crown corporation drew the ire of the federal auditor general for the second time in less than a decade for a complete lack of risk-management planning or strategic direction.

Between 1970 and 1995, the average annual payment under disaster financial assistance was $10 million. Between 1996 and 2010 it was $110 million and between 2011 and 2016 it was $360 million.

Canada and Saskatchewan seem headed to a legal showdown over whether the federal government can force provinces to impose a carbon tax.

Canada’s science minister says universities aren’t doing the heavy lifting to appoint more female research chairs, so she wants to force their hands.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is being sued for failing to tell Canadians how the country's woodland caribou are being protected.

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