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On February 7, 2018, the comment period closed for the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change's (MOECC's) proposed policy for cumulative effects assessments (CEA) in air approvals.

Le PNUE cite des risques liés aux carcasses de bétail et des impacts sur les infrastructures de traitement des eaux

Ontario's Environment Industry Association wrote a thoughtful and helpful comment on the City of Toronto's proposed Policy for Accepting Potentially Contaminated Lands to be Conveyed to the City under the Planning Act.

On June 29, 2011, the California Air Resource Board announced that it is delaying the start of the state's cap and trade program until 2013, a year later than was originally envisioned.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") will delay proposing the country’s first-ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries.

As we noted in an April, 2015 post, Ontario is introducing a cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the province.

In January, much of the European Union carbon trading system was shut down in response to the theft of carbon credits from a Czech carbon registry.

The agreement will deal at first with fine particulates and ground level ozone, with further measures to come to deal with nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide and volatile organic compounds.

In the absence of recent activity at the federal government level, Canadian provinces continue to take the lead on climate change initiatives.

The Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation ("CCEMC") continues to target GHG reductions with its July 15, 2011 call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) from small and medium enterprises.

Nationally, there will be significant changes to Canada's energy systems and economy, heavily weighted in natural resources.

In what is surely a strong reminder to companies around the globe to comply with green regulations, oil giant ExxonMobil has been fined €3.3 million (approximately $4.4 million CAD) for failure to correctly report its carbon dioxide emissions from a Scottish chemical plant. This is the largest fine for an environmental offence in British history.

In the northern Quebec, there are about 11,000 Inuit, the most highly exposed population in the world to PCB and mercury pollution.

The Alberta government recently introduced unprecedented changes to climate change regulation.

The legal category of nuisance may be easier to use for long distance air pollution after a recent comment by the Ontario Court of Appeal.

The Auction, which was oversubscribed, sold out of all 23,070,987 2014 vintage allowances for $12.10 per allowance, an increase of $0.76 over this year’s $11.34 floor price.

On July 6, 2011, Quebec's Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks announced that it has published a draft regulation on greenhouse gas (GHG) cap-and-trade based on the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) guidelines, for a 60-day public consultation.