Media Releases - Canadian Environmental Law Association

Media Release: The PFAS problem, the ‘Forever Chemicals’, should be on the public radar in Canada

The PFAS problem, the ‘Forever Chemicals’, is not on the public radar in Canada. But it should be. Research shows it’s raining ‘forever chemicals’ around the Great Lakes. And it’s not just the Great Lakes being impacted – it’s now a Canadian problem.

November 19, 2021

Media Release: 23 leading Canadian environmental organizations release detailed proposals for federal environmental action in Budget 2022

As Parliament prepares to reconvene next week, the Green Budget Coalition today issued a comprehensive set of recommendations on how the next federal Budget can meet the challenge of fighting the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.

November 17, 2021

Media Release: L4CJ Publish Open Letter to Prime Minister and Attorney General

Lawyers for Climate Justice: “Climate Change Threatens Justice in Canada”

October 14, 2021

Media Release: 70 groups call for a moratorium on new nuclear to be included in cabinet mandate letters

Seventy groups and organizations have called on the Prime Minister to include a moratorium on federal funding for nuclear expansion in the mandate letters to cabinet. Prime Minister Trudeau is expected to announce his new cabinet next week.

October 5, 2021

Court Declares Ontario Government Broke the Law

Decision on Bill 197 legal challenge reaffirms right to participate in environmental decision-making

September 8, 2021

Media Release: Coalition of Specialty Community Legal Clinics Granted Intervention at the Supreme Court of Canada in case about Public Interest Standing and Access to Justice

The Coalition of Speciality Community Legal Clinics (made up of Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO), ARCH Disability Law Centre (ARCH), the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), Chinese Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC), HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO), and South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO)) is pleased to share that it has been granted intervener status at the Supreme Court of Canada in an appeal raising important issues about the legal test for public interest standing.

August 23, 2021