Coalition For Environmental Rights

We are a diverse coalition that has come together to fight environmental injustice in Canada and secure the right to a healthy environment. Join us!

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

While much work remains this is key step in addressing the inequities that disproportionately impact marginalized communities and Indigenous peoples. To learn more about the bill and what is next check out: https://t.co/CG06vRKUyH

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

Last week advocates led by @ingrid_waldron achieved a collective victory for environmental justice. The passage of Bill C-226 means Canada will now have to develop “a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice.”

[Sarah Marie Wiebe @smwiebe]

@ingrid_waldron Great news! Today @ConversationCA posted our op-ed about how vital this bill is to address environmental racism and promote environmental justice: https://t.co/i33oD7djGP

[Dr. Ingrid Waldron @ingrid_waldron]

This morning, the environmental racism Bill C-226 moved through clause-by-clause consideration in the Senate Environment committee in record time. Consideration concluded in under 5 minutes without a single amendment. Off to report stage!

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

🇨🇦 recently recognized the R2HE for the 1st time in federal law. The gov't will be spending the next year consulting on how this right should be applied and interpreted. Organizations like ours, will be pushing to ensure the right is not water-downed and is protected. #R2HE 2/2

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

Stories like this one raise the question what can be done when pollution puts communities at risk? In Costa Rica, citizens have used the right to the healthy environment (R2HE) to bring successful legal challenges against polluters 1/2. https://t.co/h88M8WujYX

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

Bill C-226 would require the federal government to establish a strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism. The House passed Bill C-226 in March 2023, but the Senate still needs to approve it before it becomes law. Be part of the push for this much needed bill.

[Dr. Ingrid Waldron @ingrid_waldron]

Support a Canadian Environmental Justice Law. Join us in calling on the Senate to pass Bill C-226. https://t.co/mALitWSNMS

[CCECJ @theccecj]

🚀Exciting news! The CCECJ website has officially launched!

Explore this new digital platform at https://t.co/gViCTIN1yz which is designed to educate, collaborate, and amplify 🌟

Your “one-stop-shop” for updates on the coalition's work, EJ news, resources, campaigns, and more!

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

Will the senate returning, there is now a chance to pass Bill C-226. C-226 would require the federal gov't to develop a national strategy to advance environmental justice and to assess, prevent and address environmental racism.
https://t.co/5tsjA9gM22

[CCECJ @theccecj]

#UPDATE on Bill C-226: Senators did not proceed to a vote at 2nd reading before recessing for the summer. The Senate has now adjourned until September.

We call on @SenateCA to put this environmental justice bill at the top of the legislative agenda upon returning in the fall.

[Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources @yourcier]

Today is #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay, on the summer #solstice—a time for celebrating the heritage, diversity, and achievements of #FirstNations, #Inuit, and #Métis Peoples. #Indigenous #IndigenousPeoples #NIPD #NIPD2023

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

PRESS RELEASE: Groups call for Senate vote on environmental racism bill before summer - Advocates and impacted communities concerned bill stalled in the Senate ⌛️ We call on the Senate to conclude 2nd reading of the environmental racism bill this week!

[CCECJ @theccecj]

Advocates and impacted communities are concerned Bill C-226 is stalled in the Senate 🚨

We call on the Senate to conclude 2nd reading of the environmental racism bill ✨this week✨, sending the bill to committee before the summer recess.

Read our press release below +amplify

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

But there are opportunities to address these gaps. Over the next two years, the gov't will be consulting on a framework setting out the “reasonable limits” the right will be subject to. Your voice and advocacy will be needed more than ever during this time.
#fixCEPA

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

Today MPs passed #BillS5. This is the 1st major update to 🇨🇦's most important environmental law in two decades and the first time the right to a healthy environment has been recognized in federal law, but there is a catch.... https://t.co/wxkis6RBqg

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

“Allowing government to impose or influence limitations on this right will mean that economic development can take priority over the health of Canadians, if the price is right. In practice, this results in disproportionate impacts on BIPOC communities.” @ingrid_waldron

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

Thank you to @Laurel_BC and @ElizabethMay for your efforts to strengthen #S5 and highlighting its gaps, including its failure to provide a mechanism to enforce the right to a healthy environment or establish national air quality standards. Our work is just beginning #fixCEPA

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

Bill #S5 was in Parliament today on route to a final vote. #S5 is imperfect, but would update 🇨🇦's primary law on toxins, including: recognising the right to a healthy environment & requiring consideration of cumulative effects and the effect of toxins on vulnerable populations.

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

We are calling on MPs to pass Bill S-5 without delay when it returns to the House. The status quo is no longer tenable. Communities and families deserve clean air, water, and soil. We all deserve the right to a healthy environment upheld! #ENVRights
https://t.co/Em3Ghp2LkW

[Coalition For Environmental Rights @EnvRights]

This spring the CAD gov't has an opportunity to fix the primary law on toxins and pollution. Bill S-5, would finally modernise CAD's regulation of harmful substances, and recognize the right to a healthy environment - for the 1st time in federal law. #FixCEPA