Law Commission of Ontario releases environmental accountability consultation paper

By Amanda Jerome ( September 29, 2022, 11:19 AM EDT) -- The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) has released a consultation paper on environmental accountability, which considers “potential reforms” to the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) as well as “emerging legal concepts of ‘environmental justice,’ the ‘right to a healthy environment,’ and how to account for Indigenous issues and legal orders in Ontario’s environmental accountability framework.”...