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B.C. files brief in California's legal challenge to the EPA regarding GHG standards

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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February 11 2009

B.C. has filed a legal brief in support of California's challenge to an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to deny a waiver to implement the California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standard for Vehicles

Safe Management of Harmful Chemicals in North America Agreement signed

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, Mexico, USA
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February 11 2009

Environment Minister Jim Prentice and his U.S. and Mexican counterparts signed a joint Statement of Intent acknowledging their commitment to develop a regional framework for the safe management of harmful chemicals

Commission for environmental cooperation (CEC): St. Clair River submission rejected

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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September 17 2007

On August 1, 2007, the Secretariat of the CEC issued a determination dismissing a citizen submission alleging that Canada is failing effectively to enforce its environmental law by not preventing chemical and sewage spills to the St. Clair River in Sarnia, Ontario, and failing to notify downstream areas in the St. Clair-Detroit River corridor about spill incidents

Western Climate Initiative sets emissions reduction goal

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, Mexico, USA
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September 17 2007

Eight members of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) announced a regional goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 15 below 2005 levels by 2020

Taking Stock Report

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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November 23 2007

The latest Taking Stock Report from the CEC reveals that a continued decline in releases of toxic chemicals to the environment (15 percent for the U.S. and Canada from 1998 to 2004) is being driven by a group of industrial facilities that are the largest generators of emissions

Cross-border climate policy harmonization

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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May 10 2010

The basic principle underpinning Canada's climate change policy is to pursue comparable efforts with the United States, through identical greenhouse gas reduction targets, harmonized performance, product and technical standards, compatible regulatory regimes, a common carbon price and complementary border adjustment measures vis-à-vis imports from third countries

The American Power Act: a Canadian perspective

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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May 13 2010

The guiding principle behind the Harper government's climate change policy is to ensure comparable (though not necessarily identical) efforts with the United States, based on the assessment that "doing more" than the US will cause Canada economic pain for negligible environmental gain, while "doing less" would be environmentally irresponsible and raise the spectre of new American (and European) trade barriers

Working with California to reduce vehicle emissions

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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March 19 2010

British Columbia and the California Air Resources Board have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pave the way for stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards for new light-duty vehicles

Cleantech and the green energy economy

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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August 15 2009

Cleantech is not dead, notwithstanding the recessionary global economy and constricted sources of funds

U.S. interagency working group releases carbon oversight study

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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Canada, USA
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January 21 2011

On January 18, 2010, a U.S. Federal interagency working group led by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released a report on the oversight of existing and prospective carbon markets