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1. Green handwringing over new North American trade pact

   Environmentalists are wringing their hands over the new he United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), in part because the Trudeau government did not get what it wanted for environmental protections. Early in the process, Foreign ...

2. It’s time for Canada to reassess its climate policy

   The federal government recently unveiled its new national carbon pricing scheme, calling it a “backstop.” Under the backstop plan, provinces are given until 2018 to create their own carbon pricing system or Ottawa will impose its own. ...

3. Canada and the U.S. now stand on opposite sides of climate policy

   As I predicted a few days ago, President Trump yesterday kept another campaign promise, and withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Details are pending, of course, and the president threw out a combination fig leaf ...

4. Trump eyes withdrawal from Paris climate agreement

   Rumour has it, President Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, killing another legacy of the Obama administration. It’s still possible that this is a negotiating ploy, and the president is waiting for ...

5. Panic over Trump’s EPA overhaul much ado about nothing

   Environmental activist groups often oppose anyone who may have a less-aggressive green agenda then they do. ...

6. Trump’s deconstruction of Obama climate policy has major implications for Canada

   Once again, the regulatory landscape involving climate change has shifted under the feet of both the United States and Canada, as President Donald Trump has finally fulfilled his pledge to unwind Barack Obama’s climate change policies. ...

7. Trump plays trump on Keystone XL pipeline

   Today, on President Trump’s second full weekday in office, he once again showed that what he talked about on the campaign trail was not idle chit-chat. According to news reports, Mr. Trump signed five Executive Orders today involving ...

8. The good and the bad of a Trump presidency for Canadian energy

   Today, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and while nobody knows how Mr. Trump will actually govern, his rhetoric leading up to today’s inauguration offered both potential opportunities for Canada, ...

9. Trump at two weeks, and what he could mean for Canadian energy

   It has been two weeks since the world order (and some of my research agenda for the next four to eight years) was thrown into complete turmoil by the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. (I hope at this point ...