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- Hurrah for the bottle ban!
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- US Congress demands safer children’s toys
- More Grief for MOE on Standards
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- New Toxics Reduction Law Closer
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- Harper promises more environmental enforcement
- How dangerous is BPA?
- Parking pad to garden — how hard could it be?
- Credit crunch and brownfields
- Environmental Law Update
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- Important brownfield reforms
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- Toronto’s war on waste, chapter 37
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- How Canadian is our food?
- Are women protected by MOE environmental standards?
- Waste tire operator goes to jail
- Royal Bank CEO calls for carbon pricing
- St. Lawrence Cement must pay millions for no-fault class-action damages
- Lafarge denied leave to appeal
- Water rebates — a new twist on enforcement
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- Sunrise Propane class-action, plaintiffs win a skirmish
- Disappointing budget
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- ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE UNDER CEPA
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- Barry Spiegel
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- Bill 150, Green Energy and Green Economy Act
- Trouble with environmental experts
- Navigable waters protection ebbing away?
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- More trouble with environmental experts
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- Québec activist wins pollution battle against City
- Federal government updates enforcement tools
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- Some overdue congratulations to Minister Gerretsen
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- Toronto Climate Change Risk Assessment
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- Burnaby Oil Spill
- OBA comment on the Green Energy Act
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- Bill 167, Toxics Reduction Act
- Species at Risk
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- Manitoba flood of the century, again
- Toxics Reduction Act
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- More questions about the Toxics Reduction Bill
- US moving to mandatory GHG reporting
- Ontario’s New Program to Recycle Used Tires
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- NTREE calls for national carbon pricing and cap and trade
- Spring Roundup of citizen scientists
- OBA recommendations on Green Energy Act
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- Some good news for a change
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- Red tape, approvals and the Ontario economy
- Federal court orders mining disclosure
- Interesting statistics on brownfields
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- Approvals backlog drops
- IPCC: Climate and disaster management
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- Approval process a “vortex of misery”
- First carbon capture law
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- Courts get tougher on partisan experts
- Green Energy Act passed
- Lawyers reflect on the Toxics Reductions Act
- US rushing to prepare for GHG reporting, and maybe cap and trade
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- James Lovelock and the climate “phony war”
- CN pays big fines re Wabamun, Cheakamus spills
- Ontario introduces GHGE Trading Act
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- Toxic Reductions Act to pass this week
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- A top 50 Environmental Law blog
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- New Approach to Air Reg. 419/05
- Slow Death by Rubber Duck
- Not every spill is an offence
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- Drive Clean gets serious- $100,000 fine
- Scorecard of North American pollution
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- Relying on reliance letters
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- Proposed changes to Reg. 347- Waste
- Christie pits, pesticides, and the public interest
- Everyone wants to be a climate change lawyer
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- My neighbour cut down my tree
- More problems with reliance letters
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- A year after Sunrise
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- Best Lawyers in Canada
- What’s in bottled water?
- Port Stanley Harbour
- Taking toxics home
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- Class Action Update
- Smog? Take the bus, cheap!
- Sunrise Propane good for lawyers
- Why isn’t industry more worried about Reg. 419/05?
- Reg. 419/05: is it better to be “conservative” or accurate?
- Green weddings and other events
- Preston Manning calls for carbon and water pricing
- 419/05- Why no right of appeal?
- Reg. 419/05, s. 11 and Technical Standards
- Explosive neighbours and disgruntled municipalities
- Green Energy Act being rolled out in 10 steps
- Finding green work in Toronto
- What’s organic?
- Greenhouse Gas law second reading
- Climate change victims can sue coal-fired plants
- Toxic Substances draft regulations released
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- The Green Energy Act REA regulations
- Want to watch climate change happening?
- Berendsen still under appeal
- New US regulations on climate change
- Is Loblaws Green?
- Greenwashing enforcement ramping up in the US
- Regulation 347 amended
- Ecojustice puts teeth in SARA
- More details on climate change civil suit
- Real climate leadership
- GHG reporting in Ontario
- General Chemical directors settle personal claim
- The most important environmental cases of 2009
- Will wind destabilize our grid?
- Is Wal-Mart’s green agenda for real?
- Why are so many environmental lawyers women?
- Ontario’s GHG reporting regulation
- Can the precautionary principle be used to block wind energy?
- Taking climate change to the courts
- New brownfields standards coming soon
- How will nuisance law affect P3?
- More worries about Reg. 419/05
- Federal Court of Appeal rejects KPIA appeal
- Renewable Energy Approvals
- How big are 25,000 tonnes of GHG?
- Quick Overview of Canadian Environmental Law
- Ian Hanna, redux
- How long does a prosecution take?
- How do you measure a setback?
- Greenhouse gas reporting
- Wind and the precautionary principle
- Renewable Energy Approvals- Plain Language Guide
- Aboriginal consultation and renewable energy approvals
- Fair limits on liability
- Why can’t we protect trees?
- Read more great environmental blogs
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- Can anyone comply with O.Reg. 419/05?
- Find us on Mondaq too
- Bulk water transfers?
- Another wind energy lawsuit
- How big a flood plain should we protect?
- Toxic toys?
- Orange trees in Ontario?
- What topics should we cover?
- $1,000,000 penalty for odour
- Ontario has posted its GHG reporting regulation
- Court of Appeal overturns Berendsen
- Do wind turbines hurt property values?
- Who’s the greatest threat to world peace?
- US liable for Katrina damages
- Can municipalities still regulate renewable energy projects?
- GHG threaten public health and the environment
- Climate change threatens our National Parks, and other data
- Carbon offsets calculator
- Waste diversion: is it real?
- Mind games at Copenhagen
- Buy contaminated site, then sue?
- How much would slashing emissions cost consumers?
- What are climate thinkers thinking?
- Climategate?
- Lexology?
- Bragging about a green Toronto
- Big wind projects: New Zealand no, California yes
- Simplified list of key issues at Copenhagen
- What’s changed in 20 years?
- Lead in Drinking Water
- After Copenhagen
- Why is fairness irrelevant?
- Downloading liability on municipalities
- Pharmaceutical waste
- New brownfields rules
- Real protection of watersheds
- Reg. 511/09: did they really mean this?
- “Enhanced” Records of Site Condition
- Renewable energy approvals
- New rules on moving soil
- Excess material or waste?
- More thoughts about fairness
- Haiti, deforestation and environmental collapse
- Paul Ekins and green taxes
- Wood fires, soot and climate change
- Environmental Penalties higher in 2009
- Contracts with consultants
- Taking the Minister to court, personally
- Better federal environmental assessments coming?
- Fairness, non-polluter pays and Kawartha Lakes
- How much is nuisance worth?
- Better ideas about liability, allocation and fairness
- What’s an ANS?
- Spreading sewage sludge
- Renewable Energy Approvals
- The Samsung agreement and access to the grid
- City goes to bat for neighbours of cement plant
- Courts, the environment and big fines
- Why no minimum fines in the SDWA?
- Approvals Reform, at last?
- Is your EPA up to date?
- Game theory, climate change and Davos
- Noisy nosy neighbours
- Toxics Reduction Act rolling out
- MOE bracing for renewable energy approvals
- What’s happening with BPA?
- Feds to regulate municipal wastewater
- Can Oakville make power plant get municipal air permit?
- More about Oakville
- Olympic overhang- transit class action
- E-approvals
- Building codes, waterless urinals and rooftop solar
- False or misleading Records of site condition
- Drinking water safety: Worried yet about 2013?
- Water Quality Trading
- Financial assurance: what counts?
- Expert witnesses: preparation
- Approvals Reform gets closer
- Renewable energy guidance
- Environmental Assessment: Worth the cost?
- Sustainable events – real or greenwashing?
- Making parent companies pay: a sting in the tail of approval reform
- Environmental insurance getting cheaper?
- Renewable energy FIT contracts rolling out
- Regional official plans and the ANS
- Why do new fuel tanks leak?
- More Olympic nuisance lawsuits
- Climate change, KPIA and the rule of law
- Stormwater surprise
- Keeping drugs out of our drinking water – an update
- Paper recycling in Ontario takes a hit
- Designing a holdback clause
- Does law have to be so dysfunctional?
- Kyoto Protocol Implementation decision tomorrow
- Want to find a certificate of approval?
- Big climate win for Harper
- Ontario Budget 2010
- Peak oil: Who worries?
- Finding us more places
- Oil sands tailing wastes and dead ducks
- Transit class action, EA and the St. Clair Streetcar
- Federal environmental assessment shrinks
- Big fine for one minute of air pollution
- New cars: greenhouse gas limits and ethanol
- Climate change, Ultimatum and game theory
- Exporting monitors to China
- Cleaning up contamination – extra time has a price
- Wastewater billions
- Sewage, Environment Canada and surprising statistics
- Reg. 153/04 changes: impacts on contaminated sites?
- What’s toxic in that product?
- Risk Assessments- old numbers or new?
- Happy Earth Day!
- Wind energy protest planned
- Can I recycle that?
- Profile in today’s Post
- Can we still eat fish?
- Cuts to Renewable Subsidies
- PCBs in fish
- Spill, baby, spill
- Want to buy a landfill?
- Environmental penalties gaining steam
- Congratulations and thank you
- Better Ontario toilets
- Not every spill is an offence
- Environmental auditing – its own profession?
- Can garbage give us gas?
- Electricity conservation getting serious
- First Nations, Métis and Renewable Energy
- Double dipping
- 10 years after Walkerton
- Green Energy Act to force conserving electricity
- Approvals reform Bill introduced
- Wastewater system regulations – what will they mean?
- Wind and health?
- More on wind and health
- More on approvals reform
- A new light on CDM
- Transocean seeks to cap liability for Gulf spill
- Building excellence in the business of water
- Environment or economy?
- How toxic is your home?
- Dumping drugs?
- Liability caps and disasters
- Coal phase out when?
- PCB in my fish oil?
- Does pollution breach human rights?
- Time to slap down SLAPPS?
- Clean power or the Greenbelt?
- Does the pesticide ban work?
- Obama, the Oval Office, the BP spill and the future
- Distinguished Service Award
- Treaty on Mercury?
- Was BP evil or unlucky?
- Video on approvals reform
- World’s Leading Women in Business Law
- Earthquakes and nuclear plants
- Reg. 153/04 amended again
- Seizure on consent?
- Syncrude found guilty in ducks case
- Private prosecution gets a boost
- Drive Clean tweaked
- Off-shore wind turbines: new rules
- Phytoremediation of contaminated sites
- Public risk, private profits – why cap liability?
- Contaminated sites: which cleanup standards?
- Inco to pay $36 million in Port Colborne class action
- Limitations: why not too late to sue for contamination?
- First, do no harm: controlled burns and sea turtles
- Air pollution class action against the tar sands?
- Windshare
- BP and bad regulators: Minerals Management Service
- GHG reductions: are we getting better?
- Eco fee reset
- Hope you saw us in yesterday’s Globe
- Watch us re BP
- Don’t touch that shoreline
- And in the U.S..
- Retroactive injustice
- Photos of the BP spill and cleanup
- Hidden contamination: it wasn’t my tank!
- Water quality trading ebbs away again
- Bike tourism: We’re glad to help
- Old coal to improve, slowly….
- Skytruth: a great site
- Berendsen going to SCC
- Municipality can protect shoreline
- Why is FOI so hard?
- Hanna lawsuit against wind turbines grinding on
- Speaking for whales
- Seven years after the blackout
- Weather or climate?
- Public Participation- Stopping SLAPPs
- Syncrude hearing resumes
- Offshore wind turbines–the setback proposal
- Gerretsen loses post as Environment Minister
- Conservation Authority gets injunction, wetland protected
- Who’s got BPA, and so what?
- What do we owe our neighbours?
- Off-shore wind- lake zoning?
- What I did on my summer vacation
- E-waste enforcement growing across borders
- When is wood waste renewable?
- Syncrude sentencing put off re ducks
- Tar sands polluting the Athabaska River
- Can Orange Drop survive without EcoFee?
- Spills are good for lawyers
- MicroFIT flip flops
- Does the Endangered Species Act have teeth?
- Ethanol in gasoline- should we celebrate?
- Texas wind lawsuit a sign of things to come?
- Tar ponds class action close to certification?
- Financial Assurance and HST
- Best Lawyers in Canada – Congratulations
- Greenhouse gas reporting amendments
- No, the Endangered Species Act has no teeth
- Ozone depleting substances update
- Plans, if not action on endangered species
- Redefining conservation, or waste and duplication?
- Lab fined for late notice
- Have an opinion on Ontario’s energy future?
- Compost fines
- Gulf Spill: the end of the beginning
- Water Opportunities and Conservation Act?
- Factory farms- who controls the pollution?
- Should government get away with defying the law?
- Hungarian sludge spill and our tailings ponds
- Climate change: How strong is the evidence?
- Renewable energy approvals amendments
- A rare jail sentence
- Rusting wrecks an oil spill timebomb?
- Successful nonsuits- hazardous waste
- Model contract for engineers and their clients
- The dirty side of “clean fill”
- Environmental Lawyer of the year: Best Lawyers
- Electricity pricing changing again
- Syncrude pays $3M for dead ducks
- BPA- a toxic substance
- Tilting at windmills?
- Hazardous waste nonsuit decision
- Open for Business- new rules for approvals
- Cumulative pollution a Charter breach?
- Now can they make you talk?
- Environmental fines in Canada
- Au revoir, Jim Prentice
- Blog frequency
- New rules for incinerators
- Reducing GHG from heavy vehicles
- New rules for US GHG control
- Everyone liable for PCB-contaminated oil
- Coal plant promises to be broken?
- Caledon quarry rejected
- Rules for bird studies for wind turbines
- Wind approvals issued
- REA status updates
- Permit by Rule- update
- Documents excluded after illegal seizure
- Home Insurance and the Pollution Exclusion
- Drinking water source protection update
- Taxonomy, Critical to Biodiversity. Really
- Wind Appeal launched
- Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act passed
- Climate change and wilful ignorance
- Social media, pollution and enforcement
- Who owns the clouds?
- Kent Breeze wind appeal update
- Cancun and Wikileaks?
- Endangered species: Ecojustice killer whale win
- Environment and Human Rights
- Law Society rule change eases investigations
- Toxic toys update
- California GHG trading system
- Renewable Energy Approvals reg amended
- SLAPP Panel recommends anti-SLAPP law
- Signs of the times
- Brownfields deadline looms
- Suncor fined $200,000
- Extra time for Toxic Reduction plans?
- GHG Reporting regulation amended
- Renewable energy approval regulation amended
- Energy plan consultation ends this week
- Wow, a CLawBie!
- Water’s Next: Prize-winning innovators
- Our wind turbine, on film!
- Proposed law to ban organic waste from landfills
- Congratulations to Peter Kent
- US toxics overhaul
- Who pays for basement flooding?
- Infrastructure, migration and food
- Risk Management for Mercury?
- Environmental Law Firm of the Year
- End of slow death by rubber duck?
- Lots of regulations
- BP Spill- Never again?
- Thomas Homer-Dixon
- PCB Cleanup Dispute goes to the CEC
- Environmental Violations Administrative Monetary Penalties
- Hanna v. MOE, wind energy in the Divisional Court
- Brownfields: Better information, fewer errors?
- How warm was 2010?
- Climate change lawsuits
- Berendsen v. Queen in the Supreme Court
- Fielding suing Canada re PCB waste export ban
- First “permit by rule” approval sectors
- Body Burdens
- Misinformation fouls the wind debate
- Big fees for renewable energy approvals
- Approvals Reform and IT
- A new crime: hacking carbon credits
- Innovative thinking about water?
- Speaking for the public: who pays?
- Solar: Who really owns the roof?
- Offshore wind moratorium
- BP: Can we manage the risks we create?
- Chevron, Ecuador, and court shopping
- Please vote for us!
- Wind energy appeal moving fast
- Agent Orange in Ontario
- ERT to consider environmental penalties?
- Environmental moot court
- MacQueen/ Sydney tar ponds class action update
- Tax incentives for brownfields
- Banning shark fin soup
- The Agent Orange story keeps growing
- Long ago and far away? Oil company liability
- Drinking water standards getting a little tighter
- Dumping construction waste: $150,000 fine
- Is Flyrock really a pollution discharge?
- Divisional Court rejects Hanna anti- wind application today
- Bitter drinks change moral judgments?
- Hanna, wind and Statements of Environmental Values
- The 100th International Women’s Day
- A reader asks about Renewable Fuels
- Droughts, floods and food
- Upset, concern and worry aren’t enough
- Earthquakes and climate change
- Environmental appeals have to be done right
- Nuclear Liability cap in Canada
- Children, toxins, energy and renovations
- Nuclear Liability caps in Japan
- Green building materials: SM 01350
- Ministry of Education to come under EBR
- Federal budget 2011 and environment
- Nuclear Liability caps in the US?
- Pollution prohibition removed from Drainage Act
- Heyes appeal: Subway construction a nuisance?
- Agent Orange: we knew, but did it anyway
- Nuclear caps in today’s Globe
- Ontario Budget 2011
- US database on impacts of electric generation
- Darlington and Fukushima
- Judicial Criticism of Experts: so what?
- Nasal Ranger
- Carbon Farming
- Environmental Assessment not statutory authority?
- Ride for Heart?
- Fail to notify gets big fine
- 50 years of environmental law in Canada
- Keeping septic systems working
- Algonquin Park and the Crown Forest (Un)Sustainability Act
- Happy Spring Holiday
- Requiring safe nuclear
- BP spill anniversary, lawsuits growing
- Suncor stormwater conviction
- Highly Commended – Top Tier – 2011
- EPA cuts: return of the 90s?
- Progress on approvals reform
- Approvals reform: the new application
- Fixing our turbine
- Mumbling about climate change
- Fracking, drinking water and regulation
- Congratulations to the new MPs
- Flying rock a discharge?
- Fracking and hazardous waste
- Canada’s last again on GHGs
- Climate change a breach of public trust?
- Drive Clean relaxes a bit
- The Green World Economy
- Gas from fracking dirtier than coal?
- Environment Law Firm of the Year, Canada
- Do turbines affect property values?
- Was I right about air?
- Toxics/ GHG reporting deadline put off
- Fracking, methane and drinking water
- Spring flooding and climate change
- A top North American environmental law blog
- Contaminated sites reminder
- Pharmaceuticals, drinking water, and liability
- Water meters inexorable
- Erickson wind appeal delay
- American energy use in one chart
- Bikes and transit
- Brownfield Regulation amended
- How reliable are odour units?
- SLAPPS, wind and libel chill
- Transit, loss, and compensation
- Ride for Heart
- Red tape, green economy?
- Climate prospects ever bleaker
- Wind Power & Human Health Scientific Forum
- Energy conservation plans for public agencies
- Three questions for PLCs
- Legal wastewater samples
- Having trouble getting our blog?
- Demand-side management goes to court
- Bruce to Milton transmission line progress
- EMF pollution from transmission lines?
- New brownfield cleanup standards- what dates?
- PAPER financing for energy conservation
- Nuisance, GHG and climate change
- More on Can they make you talk?
- Hanna leave to appeal denied
- Worried about wind?
- Can a permit be refused after EA approval?
- Wind developers can run transmission lines on roads
- Cumulative effects in approvals
- How much notice is enough?
- Approving smelly facilities
- Do Pollution Exclusion clauses work?
- Environmental compliance approvals Sept.19
- Air regulation 419/05 amended for site-specific standards
- We’re in Lexpert!
- Updated air pollution standards
- Class action certified for highway noise
- $80,000 water discharge fine
- Erickson decision: wind turbines can be built in Ontario
- Extra soil: what can go where?
- Solar Community Bonds
- Climate change and heatstroke
- Guidance for Environmental Site Assessments
- Nova Scotia serious about green electricity
- MacQueen v. Canada class action
- What was she thinking?
- Drive Clean false claims fined
- Sewage biosolids consultation
- Social Cost of Carbon
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- Toronto fined $150,000 for sewage spill
- Friends of Wind public meeting
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- The up to date brownfields tables, with 2004 comparisons
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- How green is my carpet?
- Renewable energy approvals
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- Guidance re surplus construction soil
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- Town of Kirkland Lake fined re late landfill plan
- Set fines under Reg. 347
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- Lawsuit for noise and odour
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- Shana tova
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- Short term gain, long term pain
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- Banning sludge spreading?
- Congratulations, condolences and environmental policy
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- What will the new TCE health classification mean?
- Big fine for environmental consultant
- Good service, great staff
- Compost maker fined $125,000
- Watch for us on TV this week
- Another noise lawsuit
- Staff shuffle at the MOE
- Escheat is very popular
- Environmental causes of action
- Welcome, Jim Bradley, Minister of Environment
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- A fun thing to do- and useful
- Big odour fine
- How good is our blog?
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- Environmental Compliance Approvals start today
- Lead: Another reason to worry about car races
- More thinking about Smith v Inco
- Michaud v Sun Corp
- Lead from airplanes still widespread
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- Ontario flurry of convictions
- Farmer goes to jail
- US EPA working on standards for gas fracking water
- Chemicals in dry cleaned clothes
- Remembrance Day
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- Compliance in reporting
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- Thinking about the Occupy question
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- Speech from the Throne
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- Perc in your dry cleaned sweater?
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- US Fracking lawsuits
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- Intro to environmental law for construction
- Pollution, hot spots and environmental justice
- New federal wastewater regulations a challenge for municipalities
- Want to be a Toxic Reduction Planner?
- Leakproof waste rolloff?
- The MOVE Toronto Charrette
- Did anything happen at Durban?
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- Drinking water and “contamination”
- Smith v Inco appeal application
- Big wastewater fines
- Professional ethics in a changing climate?
- More rulings for cyclists against municipalities
- Warmest holiday wishes
- Congratulations to Cumberland
- Safe ways to reuse grey water
- Polar bears at risk: petition against Canada
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- Expropriating contaminated land
- Offshore wind moratorium claim
- Congratulations to Environmental Commissioners
- In depth analysis of Heyes v BC
- Ponoka fined $70,000 for sewage discharge permitted by province
- Biodiversity protection- how good?
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- Roundup on “Roundup”
- Approvals Reform, phase 2
- Keystone rejected, for now
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- Biggest World Risks for the Next Decade
- Conservation authorities permitting changes
- Fine of $345,000 plus jail for hog manure
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- Class actions for historic contamination
- The Limits to Growth: looking good at 40?
- Municipal liability for flooding?
- Environmental Assessment: Foreigners keep out?
- Alternative fuels breach zoning?
- Offshore wind moving ahead… in the US
- Northern Gateway, oil tankers and spills
- Compost v soil: which is “clean”?
- A note to commenters
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- Jail for victim of vandalism?
- Ecojustice victory for endangered species
- Wind and health: an Australian update
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Transportation
- Bizarre rules on Record of Site Condition
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- 2011 Environmental penalty orders
- Zephyr Wind REA Appeal dropped
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- Municipal responsibility for cycling safety
- Anti-nuclear litigation in Japan
- iBorehole
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- Draft mining regulations posted for comment
- How much cadmium in your dinner?
- ERT rejects neighbours’ plea re 22 year old spill
- Bitter bedbug battle
- Is public consultation a political activity forbidden to charities?
- Creditor or regulator? Nortel, the MOE and environment v insolvency
- Young Global Leader
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- Feed in Tariff update for renewable energy
- Mine or hauler: Who’s responsible for Waste PCB Oil?
- Attacks escalating on environmental charities
- Wind Controversy Research Report
- Provincial budget: environmental fees going up more
- More MOE cuts from Ontario Budget
- Residents get leave to appeal landfill closure
- 50 years of mercury pollution: Grassy Narrows
- Update to EBR regulation
- Bike Union: Jarvis EA breach?
- $10,000 fine for false information
- Charter 30th anniversary
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- Bill 55 and public participation
- Easier approvals for renewable energy
- OCA agrees: Ministry of Everything
- Smith v. Inco: leave to appeal refused
- Do we still have federal Environmental Assessment?
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- Creative sentencing- brilliant or cheap?
- Oil, dissent, and environment
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- Reinventing Fire: Amory Lovins
- Quick Toronto hearings on Aggregate Resources Act
- BlackoutSpeakout: It worked for Wikipedia
- Approvals reform making progress
- Low Carbon Policies
- Comments on the Mining Act changes
- New rules on soil movement
- Obstacles to waste diversion
- Federal contaminated sites
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Has your firm dealt with any litigation in terms of chem trails?
Sorry, Sandra, please clarify your question. What do you mean by "chem trail"?