The Toronto Environmental Alliance was a part of the Our Hydro Coalition and helped keep Toronto Hydro Public.

Torontoist talks to TEA's Heather Marshall about water treatment costs and the Polluter Pays initiative.

Today, the Toronto Environmental Alliance and some of our allies sent a letter to Mayor Tory and City Council urging them to adopt the revenue tools recommended by the City Manager.

Road tolls, in principle, should be a good thing for the environment - if the money collected goes towards supporting environmental programs. But decisions made by the Mayor’s Executive Committee on December 1 pretty well guarantee this won’t happen.

Mayor Tory and Toronto City Council are now halfway through their term. TEA has been monitoring the votes they cast and the decisions they made and today we’re launching a report that evaluates City Council’s first two years on four key issue areas: climate change, transportation, toxics, and waste.

As City Council reaches their midterm mark, we evaluated the key environmental decisions made by our local government in the last two years on four key issue areas: climate change, transportation, toxics, and waste.

TEA is part of the Our Hyrdo Coalition that aims at keeping Toronto Hydro public

In choosing the revenue tools best suited for helping raise the funds we need to build a greener city and fight climate change, we need to make sure they are sustainable, equitable and helping to promote positive change

On Monday evening, more than 150 concerned residents and TEA supporters flooded into a Committee Room at City Hall to show support for Toronto’s new climate action plan. Many people were forced to stand as the room was at capacity, and extra chairs had to be brought in to accommodate everyone.

TEA breaks down what happened at Toronto's City Council this Month.