Environmental Groups

23/05/25
Author: 
Mitchell Beer
Pick a Path installation - Common Horizon

May  22, 2025

Ahead of next week’s Speech from the Throne, four national climate groups mounted a 95-metre fabric installation in Ottawa’s Major’s Hill Park on Wednesday, urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to “pick a path” between new oil and gas pipelines and climate action.

13/05/25
Author: 
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Dr. Melissa Lem, Kai Nagata, Emiko Newman, Tracey Saxby, Kiki Wood
Piping on the top of a receiving platform for the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline terminus at the LNG Canada export terminal in Kitimat. DARRYL DYCK, THE CANADIAN PRESS
May 12, 2025

For years, B.C. has called itself a climate leader. Now, the provincial climate plan is a shambles.

16/03/25
Author: 
Brett Wilkins
Demonstrators rally against the Trump administration policies that are endangering clean air and water on February 15, 2025 in Detroit. (Photo: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Mar. 12, 2025

"The Trump administration is trying to roll back decades of critical health and safety regulations that have saved millions of lives and are all that's standing between us and runaway climate change," said one campaigner.

While U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin boasted Wednesday of canceling billions of dollars worth of green grants, considering the rollback of dozens of regulations, and shutting down every environmental justice office nationwide, critics warned the moves will have dire consequences for people and the planet.

16/03/25
Author: 
Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
gas burner

Mar. 13, 2025

As gas prices rise again in Ontario and British Columbia, leaving millions of Canadians at the mercy of volatile markets—and Wall Street—health and climate experts say it’s time for policymakers to break free from fossil fuels.

27/02/25
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is reviving former Alberta premier Jason Kenney's (above) failed tactic of attacking environmental groups for getting U.S. funding as his answer to the Trump tariff threats. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Feb. 25, 2025

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is pitching new laws targeting provincial environmental groups as part of his party’s strategy to combat U.S. tariff threats. 

Flanked by billboards reading “US millionaires are funding the destruction of B.C. economy” at a press conference Monday, Rustad argued the province needs legislation to ban B.C.-based environmental groups from receiving any U.S. funding for climate campaigns against oil and gas companies.

20/02/25
Author: 
Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
Pixabay

Feb. 20, 2025

Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.

11/02/25
Author: 
Damien Gayle
A police officer appears to film Just Stop Oil activists on Whitehall near Parliament Square on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Feb. 11, 2025

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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