MOE getting pushback on proposed brownfields standards
Developers and banks are expressing strong concern to the Ministry of the Environment about the impact of proposed standards for contaminated sites.
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President Obama began today a major, and long-overdue shift in US energy and environmental policy, and a reassertion of American leadership on international issues such as climate change.
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Systemic problems with Canada's Export/Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Materials Regulations lead to unnecessary disputes.
View the post titled Export and Import of Hazardous Waste and Recyclable MaterialsMOE Interrogations
Can Ministry of the Environment investigators force people to answer their questions?
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Canada has no clear legal standards for indoor air quality in homes. Yet most people spend at least 90% of their time indoors, and indoor air is often more contaminated than outdoor air.
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Rating agencies may have taken a beating in the credit crisis, but some are hoping to make a good dollar out of the climate crisis.
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An Ontario court has ruled that offsite drift of a pesticide is not necessarily an offence. Neighbours abutting a farm complained that they and their animals were made ill when the herbicide, Prowl, drifted from the adjacent farm. Ministry of the Environment confirmed that some Prowl had lan…
View the post titled Pesticide Drift may not be OffenceCarbon footprint of products
Should there be a consistent world wide method to calculate and advertise the carbon footprint of products? And, if so, what should it say?
View the post titled Carbon footprint of productsEnvironmental penalties in 2008
Ontario Ministry of the Environment imposes first five environmental penalties for spills.
View the post titled Environmental penalties in 20082008 Statements of Environmental Values
This fall, several ministries, including the Ministry of the Environment, quietly adopted new Statements of Environmental Values, to replace the 1994 versions. The new SEVs are more detailed and more ambitious. This may make it even more difficult for the MOE to issue approvals for innovativ…
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