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On May 3, 2018, the federal Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould announced that the federal government will intervene in the British Columbia government's reference question to the B.C. Court of Appeal.

In active gas-extraction areas (one or more gas wells within 1 km), average and maximum methane concentrations in drinking-water wells increased with proximity to the nearest gas well and were … a potential explosion hazard.

A gas station operating on a First Nations Reserve in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan was ordered to pay $25,000 for failing to comply with Environment Canada enforcement orders.

The European Food Safety Authority has published a new report on levels of dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in food and feed.

The Ministry of the Environment has withdrawn its last charges against the Halton Recycling plant in Newmarket, which were to go to trial this week.

We’ve twice mentioned the BC case, refusing to compensate business owners severely impacted during subway construction: Susan Heyes Inc. v. South Coast BC Transportation Authority.

Canadian courts continue to grapple with issues at the untidy intersection of insolvency law and environmental regulation.

This week, the Canadian government introduced the Environmental Enforcement Act (Bill C-16), which would enhance the enforcement tools in nine federal environmental laws (including the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999) and establish an administrative monetary penalties regime.

Environment Minister Peter Kent announced new regulations for coal-fired power plants this afternoon.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Tuesday a rule to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Noront Resources Ltd. submitted its draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Assessment Report for its Eagles Nest Project in Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire on December 21, 2013. Aboriginal communities and resource companies in the region are now wondering what happens next.

On April 13, 2015, Ontario announced that it would join Quebec and California’s harmonized cap and trade system to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

West Coast Environmental Law’s new report, Professionals and Climate Change: How professional associations can get serious about global warming, challenges the self-regulating professions to clearly define their members’ ethical obligation that the members of professional organizations owe to their clients and the public relating to climate change.

Redefining Conservation is the Ontario Environmental Commissioner’s annual report for 2009/ 2010.

As Canada's pursuit of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 continues to gain support from the public and private sectors, the governments of Canada and Alberta...

Who should pay the costs, when a public interest intervenor succeeds before an administrative tribunal?

On February 29, 2016, Teck Metals Ltd. plead guilty to three offences under the Fisheries Act for the release of substances deleterious to fish in the Columbia River.