Feds announce framework to modernize CEPA and right to healthy environment

October 3, 2024

Today, Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced a framework to protect the right to a healthy environment through the modernization and administration of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). “For decades, certain communities have been disproportionately affected by toxic pollution, waste, landfills, and dumps,” said Guilbeault. […]