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xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories/VANCOUVER – West Coast Environmental Law’s staff climate lawyer and climate scientist are responding to a new study released today demonstrating that the recent 40-50°C temperatures suffered across BC

Topics: Climate and Energy, Community Climate Adaptation, Climate Solutions

BC’s unprecedented heatwave highlights urgent need for action under federal law passed today

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories/VANCOUVER -  Lawyers from West Coast Environmental Law are challenging the Province of BC to meet or beat the new Canadian standard for electric vehicles

Topics: Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

OTTAWA, Unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe Territories — Environmental organizations Climate Action Network-Réseau Action Climat, Ecojustice, Équiterre, David Suzuki Foundation and West Coast Environmental Law Association celebrate the final vote in the House of Commons to adopt the Canadian Net-Ze

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

Thousands of projects escape assessment under federal law

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Canada's Environmental Reviews, Environmental Assessment

Groups urge all MPs to support Bill C-230 in final House vote this fall

OTTAWA, Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People 

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws

VANCOUVER, BC, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – With its new policy statemen

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Environmental Assessment, Climate and Energy

Unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe Territories [OTTAWA] - Environmental organizations Climate Action Network-Réseau Action Climat (CAN-Rac), Ecojustice, Équiterre, David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) and West Coast Environmental Law Association (WCELA) urge the House of Commons and Senate to move swiftly to

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories / Vancouver, BC - 

Topics: Indigenous Law

Climate “Cost Menu” informs BC communities about the costs of preparing for increased wildfires, flood risks

Topics: Climate and Energy, Sue Big Oil, Community Climate Adaptation

Climate accountability bill needs significant improvement to achieve net-zero emissions, experts warn

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

MONTREAL / OTTAWA / VANCOUVER - Five environmental organizations – Climate Action Network Canada, the David Suzuki Foundation, Équiterre, Ecojustice and West Coast Environmental Law – are calling on federal parliamentarians to urgently prioritize the Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

VANCOUVER, BC, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – West Coast Environmental Law applauds today’s decision by the Supreme Court upholding Canada’s price on carbon pollution, which confirmed the responsibility of all levels of government to take action to address the climate crisi

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions, Environmental Legal Aid, EDRF Legal Aid Fund

Urgent need for national strategy and law to address environmental racism

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Green Communities, Environmental Legal Aid

VANCOUVER, BC, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – West Coast Environmental Law is deeply disappointed by today’s decision by the BC government to continue construction on the Site C dam.

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Environmental Assessment, Climate and Energy, Environmental Legal Aid, EDRF Legal Aid Fund

The issue: Is it unconstitutional for Parliament to enact a law requiring federal assessments of the effects of major proposals such as coal mines and fossil fuel projects?

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Canada's Environmental Reviews, Environmental Assessment

Canada has some of the weakest protections against cruise ship pollution along North American West Coast, says new report 

Topics: Marine Protection, Great Bear Sea, Protected Areas, Fish & Wildlife

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, STAND.earth, WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy

Horgan government pushes back climate plan by a year

Topics: Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

VANCOUVER, BC, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories - Lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law made the following statements in response to the federal government’s newly-released

Topics: Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

VANCOUVER, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – The Province of British Columbia has missed its own deadline to complete the CleanBC plan, another in a long string of broken promises on climate action.

Topics: Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

VANCOUVER, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories — A new report by the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) shows the Trans Mountain and Keystone pipelines are not needed even if only minimum climate action is taken.

Topics: Climate and Energy, Tar Sands, Pipelines & Tankers

Lawyers say changes are needed for the law to show true climate leadership

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Climate Solutions

VANCOUVER, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – Dr.

Topics: Climate and Energy, Sue Big Oil, Community Climate Adaptation, Climate Solutions

Environmental lawyers look for government to deliver on commitments to aggressive climate vision and plan

Topics: Strong Environmental Laws, Climate and Energy, Indigenous Law, Marine Protection, Green Communities