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Environmental law articles, insights, podcasts, videos and webinars from expert sources across the legal world. Explore insights covering topics such as clean air/pollution, climate change, environmental law and waste management.

AI's Environmental Footprint: Top Compliance Risks Canadian Companies Should Consider

Artificial intelligence is accelerating across industries, but its adoption brings environmental and regulatory considerations that many organizations have not yet evaluated.

Canada Environment

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Miller Thomson LLP

Budget 2025 – Proposed Amendments To The Greenwashing Legislation

On November 4, 2025, the federal government released Budget 2025, which included a statement that the new greenwashing provisions under the Competition Act...

Canada Environment

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Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

De la politique à la pratique : L'évolution du droit de l'environnement au Canada en 2025

En 2025, le cadre de la réglementation environnementale au Canada a connu d'importants changements par suite de l'introduction, à l'échelle fédérale et provinciale...

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Federal Environmental Racism Legislation Update For First Nations

A great many First Nations, Métis and Inuit are the victims of environmental racism.

Canada Environment

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DWF Group

Climate Litigation Report 2025

Canada Environment

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McLennan Ross LLP

Plan For The Ban: Canada To Scrap Export Ban For Single-Use Plastics

Canada Environment

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McMillan LLP

Company Officers And Managers Can Be Subject To Fisheries Act Inspector's Directions: What Terrapure Means For Industry And Individuals

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

From Policy To Practice: Canada's Evolving Environmental Law In 2025

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Biodiversity Net Gain: How Planning Teams And Developers Are Making It Work

Canada Environment

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Gowling WLG

Cadre de mise en œuvre du droit à un environnement sain dans le cadre de la LCPE

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Greenwashing Rules May Get A Makeover In Canada's 2025 Budget

Canada Environment

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Green Light For Green Claims? Federal Government Reverses Course On Greenwashing Rules In Budget 2025

Canada Environment

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Gowling WLG

Let's Get Together (Yay-Yay-Yay): What Ontario's Consolidation Of Conservation Authorities Means For Stakeholders

Canada Environment

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McMillan LLP

Torys On Budget 2025: Tax Highlights

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Torys LLP

Financial Services Regulatory Authority Of Ontario's New Proposed Life And Health Managing General Agents Rule

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Torys LLP

CRA Directs Taxpayer To Wrong Court!

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Millar Kreklewetz

What Happens If You Default On A Car Loan In Ontario? (Video)

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Devry Smith Frank LLP

Contracts For Services vs. Contracts For Goods In Ontario

Canada Commercial

Pacific Legal PC

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Environment and Climate Regulation

Environmental Law

Bill 5 And Special Economic Zones: Understanding The Proposed Designation Criteria

On June 5, 2025, Bill 5, the Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act, 2025, received Royal Assent, which enacted the controversial Special Economic Zones Act, 2025 (the "SEZ Act").

Canada Government

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Davies Howe

Federal-Provincial Cooperation In The Canada-Alberta Electricity MOU

The Federal Government and the Government of Alberta signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") on November 27, 2025 which highlights the Federal Government's interest in developing Alberta's energy sector...

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McLennan Ross LLP

AI's Environmental Footprint: Top Compliance Risks Canadian Companies Should Consider

Artificial intelligence is accelerating across industries, but its adoption brings environmental and regulatory considerations that many organizations have not yet evaluated.

Canada Environment

MT

Miller Thomson LLP

Une deuxième série de projets est soumise à l'examen du Bureau des grands projets du Canada

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Powering AI: Canada's Evolving Electricity Grid Connection Policies

Canada Technology

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Budget 2025 – Proposed Amendments To The Greenwashing Legislation

Canada Environment

BD

Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

Legislative Update Report No. 2025-22 Le Bulletin D'actualités Législatives

Canada Government

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

No Stay For Security: Alberta Court Affirms Regulator's Public Duty In AlphaBow

Canada Insolvency

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Fasken

Understanding The Regulatory Impacts Of The Alberta–Ottawa MoU On Energy Development

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

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Climate Change

Une deuxième série de projets est soumise à l'examen du Bureau des grands projets du Canada

Le 13 novembre 2025, le premier ministre du Canada a annoncé la deuxième série de projets qui seront soumis à l'examen du Bureau des grands projets (le « BGP »).

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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Climate Litigation Report 2025

The United Nations Environment Programme recently released its Climate Litigation Report 2025, the fourth in its series following earlier reports in 2017, 2020, and 2023.

Canada Environment

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McLennan Ross LLP

Plan For The Ban: Canada To Scrap Export Ban For Single-Use Plastics

The federal Single-use Plastics Prohibition Regulation ("SUP Regulations") was set to introduce a ban on the manufacture, import and sale of certain single-use plastic manufactured items...

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Company Officers And Managers Can Be Subject To Fisheries Act Inspector's Directions: What Terrapure Means For Industry And Individuals

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Biodiversity Net Gain: How Planning Teams And Developers Are Making It Work

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Federal Budget 2025: Energy, Infrastructure, And Indigenous Funding Initiatives

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Green Light For Green Claims? Federal Government Reverses Course On Greenwashing Rules In Budget 2025

Canada Environment

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Gowling WLG

Changes Coming To Alberta's TIER System

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

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Clean Air / Pollution

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

The Framework establishes how CEPA will be administered to fulfill the Government of Canada's duty to respect, protect and fulfill the Right

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

A New Problem For EV Fast Chargers: Air Pollution

This information that follows is taken from sources including The Car Connection, Autoweek, Green Car Reports, and other industry sources.

Canada Environment

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Crowe MacKay LLP

Phase 1 Of The Federal Plastics Registry: Deadline To Submit Reports Fast Approaching

On April 20, 2024, the federal Department of the Environment published a notice in the Gazette ("Notice") pursuant to section 46(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999...

Canada Environment

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Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

Are You Ready For The New Plastics Registry Reporting Due September 29?

Canada Environment

WL

WeirFoulds LLP

Ontario's SEZs: A Legislative Power Grab Endangering Indigenous Rights And The Environment

Canada Environment

JFK Law LLP

Plan For The Ban: Federal Plastics Registry Portal Is Now Live

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Guidance Published For Reporting To The Federal Plastics Registry – Phase 1

Canada Environment

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Plan For The Ban: Global Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations On Pause

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Commeth The Hour, Commeth The Corporate: Will 2025 See Business Leaders Become The Most Important Climate Advocates?

Canada Environment

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Gowling WLG

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Waste Management

Cadre de mise en œuvre du droit à un environnement sain dans le cadre de la LCPE

En juin 2023, la Loi canadienne sur la protection de l'environnement (1999) (la « LCPE ») a été modifiée afin de reconnaître le droit à un environnement sain...

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

The Framework establishes how CEPA will be administered to fulfill the Government of Canada's duty to respect, protect and fulfill the Right

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Quebec's EV Battery Recovery Program Goes Nationwide

On June 26 2025, the Electric Vehicle Battery Recovery Program (the "EV Battery Program"), originally an industry-led Quebec initiative, announced that it has now expanded across Canada.

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Are You Ready For The New Plastics Registry Reporting Due September 29?

Canada Environment

WL

WeirFoulds LLP

Canadian Product Stewardship And EPR: 2025 Summer Update

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Proposed Changes To Ontario's Recycling Regime (Part 1): Amendments To The Resource Recovery And Circular Economy Act, 2016

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Proposed Changes To Ontario's Recycling Regime (Part 2): Amendments To The Blue Box Regulation

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Safety First: Refusal To Comply With Safety Program Warrants Dismissal

Canada Employment

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Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP

Proposed Changes To Ontario's Recycling Regime (Part 3): RPRA Collection System, Management Requirements And Performance Credits Guidance

Canada Law Performance

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McMillan LLP

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Latest Videos

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Increased Scrutiny, Novel Measures, And Higher Penalties: Trends In Environmental Investigations, Enforcement, And Prosecutions (Video)

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Driving Ontario Municipalities Forward (Video)

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Key Takeaways From Our "Corporate Climate Change" Panel Discussion

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Panel: The State Of BC's Cleantech Sector (Video)

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Gowling WLG

Environmental Crises: Management Of Risks And Liabilities - Video

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Dentons Canada LLP

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