Blog posted by Joseph F. Castrilli, CELA Counsel on October 22, 2013 On October 17, 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialized agency of the World Health Organization, announced that it has classified outdoor air pollution and particulate matter as…
Blog posted by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel on October 17, 2013 In Ontario, no person is allowed to establish, operate or expand a waste disposal site (i.e. landfill) unless an Environmental Compliance Approval has been issued under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA). This…
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Blog posted by Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director and Counsel on October 10, 2013 On the morning of Thursday, October 10, 2013, I found on the front step our copy of the Globe and Mail with the headline, ``Ontario backs away from new…
Blog posted by Sarah Miller, Researcher, Retired on October 1, 2013 For forty years CEHE partner organization the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) has worked to “protect human health and our environment by seeking justice for those harmed by pollution and by…
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Blog posted by Richard D. Lindgren, Counsel on September 6, 2013 When I first joined CELA in the mid-1980s, an intense public policy debate was well underway in Ontario on what to do with the ever-increasing amount of municipal solid waste (MSW)…
Blog posted by Rizwan Khan, Counsel on August 13, 2013 In my previous post, “Ontario’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program – Road Transportation”, I touched on how the Provincial government’s failure to address road transportation in its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Program meant that it was…
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