On February 12, 2019, the Government of Ontario posted its proposal for the Emissions Performance Standards (EPS).

On April 11, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada denied the dry cleaner's application for leave to appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in Huang v Fraser Hillary's Ltd.

The Supreme Court of Canada issued a ground-breaking declaration of Aboriginal title on June 26, 2014.

On December 4, 20151, Essroc Canada Inc. was fined a total of $200,000, plus a victim surcharge of $50,000, for discharging dust into the natural environment and failing to notify the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

On September 27, 2016, the Minister of Economic Development and Growth reintroduced omnibus Bill 27, the Burden Reduction Act 2016, for First Reading.

Industry and First Nation governments frequently contract with each other on the basis that the signature of the Chief, or Chief and Council, is the only requirement to create a binding legal obligation...

Chevron Corporation has resisted enforcement of the Ecuadorian judgment.

For the first time in 25 years, Ontario has dramatically tightened air quality standards for a number of key pollutants and odiferous chemicals. This is one more stage in the rewriting of the province’s air pollution regulations, to include a revised list air dispersion models, updated opacity standards, and administrative amendments designed to improve clarity and aid enforcement.

As with all aspects of environmental law, the law turns on the facts. The law of trees is no different.

Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP featured prominently in a story on the top boutique law firms in the country in the May 2010 issue of Canadian Lawyer.

On July 6, 2019, the federal government published proposed regulations establishing concentration limits for volatile organic compounds ("VOCs") ...

When drafting a will, don't forget to consider your beneficiaries' personal potential environmental liabilities.

For Indigenous law watchers, November 30, 2016 was a notable day. The SCC in a day long sitting heard Hamlet of Clyde River v TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA...

The Supreme Court of British Columbia recently released its decision in Yahey v British Columbia. The Court clarified the requirements for Aboriginal groups seeking to enjoin or prohibit future...

Consider a straightforward hypothetical: Party A undertakes an activity at its property that causes pollution to migrate to an adjacent property.

Industrial and institutional sources emitting greater than or equal to 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent ("CO2e") per year would be regulated at the point of emission (i.e., facility level).

On November 4, 2015 the Yukon Court of Appeal (the "Court") released its decision in The First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun v. Yukon, rejecting the Yukon government's land use plan for the Peel Watershed.

It's easy for lawyers to get caught up in the legal intricacies of environmental law. In order to avoid this,—and to not lose the audience's attention—at the recent IECS

Vendor's disclosure of environmental issues that could be characterized as latent defects should best be made by disclosure of original material such as an environmental report in the sale agreement.

Ontario and British Columbia have both invested heavily in infrastructure to generate inexpensive power.