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Changes to British Columbia’s bio-product regulations

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 1 2012

On June 26, the Canadian province of British Columbia’s minister of forests, lands, and natural resource operations announced regulatory changes to the Forest Act, Forest and Range Practices Act, and Wildfire Act that will help bioenergy producers and manufacturers access needed logging slash and wood waste fiber

BC meeting GHG reduction goals

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 1 2012

British Columbia’s environment minister released a progress report and 2010 greenhouse gas inventory report June 27, indicating that the Canadian province is on track to meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets

Manitoba environmental plan

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 24 2012

Canada’s Manitoba unveiled June 15 an eight-year environmental protection plan that calls for mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting, more focus on renewable energy, and minimal-impact mining and petroleum development

WTO to rule on Ontario domestic content rules in November

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • June 17 2012

A dispute panel at the World Trade Organization announced plans to issue a ruling in November on the European Union and Japan’s joint filing challenging the Ontario's Feed-In Tariff program sourcing requirements and subsidies

CARB to vote on linking with Ontario emissions trading system

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • June 17 2012

The California Air Resources Board announced June 11 that with recent changes to both, Quebec’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program is in sync with California's trading program

RGGI compliance

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • June 10 2012

A June 4 report released by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative says that of the 211 power plants subject to RGGI’s requirements, only five were not in compliance as a result of their failure to have allowances for all of their carbon dioxide emissions

Canadian oil sands studies

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 3 2012

On May 30, Canada's Pembina Institute released “In the Shadow of the Boom: How Oilsands Development is Reshaping Canada's Economy” which argues the nation’s booming oil sands sector is harming Canadian manufacturing and artificially inflating the Canadian dollar

WTO rejects Canada’s challenge

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • June 3 2012

A World Trade Organization panel rejected May 25 a procedural claim filed by Canada challenging dispute proceedings initiated by the European Union and Japan targeting alleged discriminatory sourcing requirements and illegal subsidies in Ontario’s Feed-In Tariff program

International

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, China, European Union, Global, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 13 2012

The European Chemical Industry Council announced May 8 that it will monitor its environmental sustainability by tracking indicators like greenhouse gas and acidifying gases emissions and waste generation

Ontario requires U.S. pollution reduction

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 6 2012

Ontario submitted a friend of the court brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit May 1, contending that areas of the province near the U.S. border cannot meet their ozone air quality standard because of power plant pollution that crosses into Canada