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Environmental regulation is shaped by government decision-making, but that’s not the whole story. On May 2, 2018, a Canadian court confirmed that Canada has been successfully sued by an American concrete company. Canada will likely pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Bilcon Inc. as compensation for an environmental impact assessment decision made in 2007. In this episode on Nimonik Insights, we talk about the provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that allow companies to sue governments, and what this means for environmental regulation.