Presentation on brownfield legislation, site remediation, and recent municipal developments.
Presentation: Regulating Brownfields in St. Catharines
Tag: pollution
Fact sheets: Environmental Penalties to Fund Community-led Projects
New fact sheets about environmental penalty funds for community projects.
Submission: Response to Updated Draft State of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report
In July 2024, ECCC and Health Canada released an updated version of the report. Public interest organizations, including CELA, continue to respond to the government departments’ proposed findings that the class of PFAS meet the criteria as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Citizens Pollution Diary
A tool to help community members gather evidence about pollution.
Report – Exploring Awareness of Impacts of Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes Basin: Voices from the Underserved and Underrepresented Communities
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) contracted the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) to assemble an information inventory and undertake a community awareness project with marginalized community members in Canada’s portion of the Great Lakes basin, specifically, to explore awareness…
Making the Links in Southeastern Ontario: CELA’s Toolkit for Environmental Action
This Toolkit has been created to pair critically urgent environmental issues with legal mechanisms for change and public advocacy.