CELA's Latest Activities
Expanding the Greenbelt for Nature and People
CELA partnered with Wildlands League to host a webinar about expanding the Greenbelt. CELA Special Projects Counsel, Healthy Great Lakes, Anastasia Lintner presented. Anastasia’s presentation is available here: Expand the Greenbelt for Nature and People (CELA presentation)
Blog – Long Awaited Amendments to CEPA: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly on Chemicals and Environmental Rights
CELA Counsel Joe Castrilli and Researcher Fe de Leon blog about Bill C-28 amending the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
Blog – Carbon Pricing, Vulnerable Communities, and the Constitution
CELA Counsel Richard Lindgren blogs about the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act.
Guest Blog – PFAS and the Great Lakes: The Need for Binational Action
Posted by Michael Murray, Ph.D., U.S. Co-chair, Toxics-Free Great Lakes Binational Network; Staff Scientist, National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Regional Center and
John Jackson, Canadian Co-chair, Toxics-Free Great Lakes Binational Network
Guest Blog – Zero Discharge & Virtual Elimination of Toxic Chemicals in the Great Lakes: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Posted by John Jackson, Canadian Co-chair, Toxics Free Great Lakes Binational Network and Michael Murray, Ph.D., U.S. Co-chair, Toxics Free Great Lakes Binational Network and Staff Scientist, National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Regional Center
March 2021 Bulletin
Inside CELA Law Society of Ontario Awards CELA’s Kathleen Cooper CELA is proud to announce that Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher, Paralegal, and Communications Coordinator, has recently been awarded the William J. Simpson Distinguished Paralegal Award from the Law Society of Ontario. This award
Media Release: Federal pesticide regulator flip-flops on proposed neonics ban after years of delay
Canada failing to protect the environment from harmful pesticides, groups say
Blog: Faces of CELA with Kristen Lowitt
Blog posted by Pelly Shaw, CELA Communications Intern What is your role, and how long have you been with CELA? I’ve been a member of the Healthy Great Lakes Advisory Committee since late 2020. What inspired you to get involved
Blog: Faces of CELA with Julie Cayley
Blog posted by Pelly Shaw, CELA Communications Intern What’s your role and how long have you been involved with CELA? I’m currently a member of the Healthy Great Lakes Advisory Committee, and though it’s been less than a year that
Budget Action Alert
The next federal budget must eliminate the injustices of vulnerable communities being disproportionately impacted by both the social and economic consequences of the pandemic and by pollution, climate change, and resource extraction.