Blog: Auditor general criticizes Ontario’s environmental record

CELA Counsel Richard Lindgren blogs about Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk's recent annual report on the provincial government’s environmental record in 2019-20.

Media Release: Virtual Hill Days call on federal government to keep its promise to strengthen toxics and pollution law

Environmental, health and clean cosmetics groups ask for immediate reform to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. The groups are joined by hundreds of concerned citizens in calling on the federal government to fulfil its promise to reform the country’s two-decade old pollution prevention and toxic chemicals law.

Letter to PM: Hold Strong on Environmental Laws During Pandemic

CELA and 15 other organizations have written a letter to the Prime Minister urging the government to resist pressure to weaken or delay the implementation of federal environmental laws during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Industrial Emission Performance Standards

Title: Industrial Emission Performance Standards Resource Type: Response to Consultation Content: 1262 - CELA Submission on Emissions Performance Standards, March 29, 2019 # of Pages: 8 Date authored: March 29, 2019 Publication number: 1262 Author/s: Jacqueline Wilson and Sara Desmarais…

Blog: Time to Beef Up Toxics Reduction Measures

FRANCAIS Blog post by Joseph F. Castrilli, CELA Counsel on June 27, 2018 Red tape reduction, not toxics reduction, is alive and well in amendments to regulations promulgated in April 2018 under Ontario’s Toxics Reduction Act. To understand why, it is necessary to briefly review…