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Soon after the city of Denton passed a prohibition on fracking earlier this year, the city was sued by several parties alleging that the fracking ban was invalid. It appears that the city of Denton may have some support in its defense of the fracking ban.

First Nations and environmental groups are asking the courts to quash the report by the Joint Review Panel (Panel) for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline project or to order the reopening of the review and reconsideration of the Panel’s findings.

Public sector entities may find themselves scrambling to meet their obligations to identify, report and account for long forgotten buried liabilities.

On November 28, 2014 the new Northwest Territories Wildlife Acti will be called into force.

Presumably, details about how the proposals and initiatives set out in the Environment Plan will be released in the coming months.

On August 29, 2018 Premier Doug Ford announced the removal of the cost of carbon tax from natural gas rates by October 1, 2018.

On February 24, 2020 the Alberta Court of Appeal in Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, 2020 ABCA 74 ruled.

After 115 years under the old regime, the new Water Sustainability Act received Royal Assent on Friday May 20, 2014: an historic occasion to celebrate?

XL Catlin announced that it is now offering environmental contractors and consultants the option to add "rectification expense" coverage to XL Catlin's professional and pollution legal liability insurance products.

The Competition Bureau (the Bureau) recently issued its final guidelines on environmental benefits claims (Guidelines), hot on the heels of its Annual Plan for 2025-2026...

On December 8, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the federal government’s new "Chemicals Management Plan". The plan will carry out the mandate established for the federal government in 1999 under the Toxic Substances Control part of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) to categorize by toxicity all of the chemical substances known or presumed to exist in Canada that are recorded on the Domestic Substances List (DSL).

As the polar bears of the Beaufort Sea face record low ice, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has issued a determination, requiring a response from Canada to submission SEM-11-003 (Protection of Polar Bears).

Is the tide turning on fossil fuel divestment? Climate Week featured promises, by some big mainstream investors, to start divesting from fossil fuels.

On March 3, 2023, the Canadian federal government's Sustainable Financial Action Council published its Taxonomy Roadmap Report for Mobilizing Finance for Sustainable Growth by Defining Green and Transition Investments.

On June 20, 2024, Canada amended the Competition Act to address greenwashing.

Recent divestments by certain major global investment funds of their holdings in companies due to ESG concerns demonstrates the increasing importance of ESG as an investment criteria for all classes of investor.

On April 8, 2020, the federal government announced an intent to amend the Output-Based Pricing System Regulations, SOR/2019-266 (OBPS Regulations), enacted under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act...