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1231028 Ontario Limited O/A Fallingbrook Auto Garage and John Sookrah were fined $45,000 for Drive Clean Violations.

In our continuing effort to "Walk the Talk", we always try to pick green and socially constructive suppliers for our law firm.

We want to add our voice to those congratulating and thanking Premier Wynne for stepping in to rescue the world class environmental research station, the irreplaceable Experimental Lakes Area that the federal government shuttered.

On March 9, 2011, Scotland Agromart Ltd. was fined $75,000 for failing to notify the ministry of a pesticides spill.

The Internet has been an enormous boon to those needing to keep up with municipal bylaws.

A Niagara Escarpment Hearing Officer recently had to decide how many unsuccessful efforts to contact an appellant were enough. Dr. Deborah Truscott appealed a proposed municipal park development.

I can’t resist telling you that geotechnical engineer Shoshanna Saxe and web developer Micah Zarnke have released a new app that uses the GPS, camera and other features of an iPhone to improve the ease and accuracy of field logging of boreholes.

Samples that are not properly taken, recorded, handled and analyzed are useless in court, and can lead to unjustified enforcement proceedings.

Why do we spend so much time and money on invisible contamination underground?

Manitoba government has stopped using public money to buy single use bottles of water.

The Ministry of the Environment has published an organization chart on its website.

For those interested, here is a copy of Trillium Power vs. The Queen (Ontario), Trillium’s Statement of Claim against the province of Ontario over Ontario’s on-again, off-again policy of encouraging offshore wind development, which is currently under a moratorium again.

I hope that environmental issues matter when you decide how to vote.

Access to some federal and provincial environmental monitoring data on air, water, land and biodiversity in the oil sands is now available.

One of the key forecasts that Natural Resources Canada made, years ago, about climate change was that it would increase spring flooding and severe storms.

Grist has assembled the 32 most alarming climate change charts from the draft report of the US National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee.

For some exciting, detailed thinking about how greening the Greater Toronto Area could actually work, focussing on transportation, read the handbook from the MOVE! Charrette, held recently at Evergreen’s Brickworks.