Comparative Standards for Intensive Livestock Operations in Canada, Mexico and the United States
Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters, Secretariat Determinations under Articles 14 and 15 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, August 1997 through June 2002.
The objective of this study is to present European siting and emission requirements for coal-fired and natural gas generating facilities, and provide an overview of the European standardization process. A summary of the functioning of the European Union is presented. Relevant organizations are identified, current trends are presented.
On 23 October 1998, the Environmental Health Coalition and Comité Ciudadano Pro Restauración del Cañón del Padre y Servicios Comunitarios, A.C. (the “Submitters”) filed a submission with the Secretariat under NAAEC Article 14 asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law in the case of an abandoned lead smelter in Tijuana, Baja […]
This report is intended to introduce the ecological, economic and sociopolitical realities that have shaped the way that freshwater resources and freshwater ecosystems have been “managed” in Canada, Mexico and the United States. It focuses primarily on the legal and management regimes that have evolved for boundary and transboundary surface waters and ecosystems. The regimes […]
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of thestate of the environment in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
For this report, the Enforcement Working Group has chosen to focus on three issues: 1) compliance promotion, 2) compliance verification (inspection), and 3) measurement of program results. The main body of the report includes individual sections for Canada, Mexico and the United States, describing how their respective domestic environmental enforcement and compliance promotion programs address […]
Today, more people, commodities and products, more ideas and images, more genes and microbes, will move around the planet than at any other time in human history.
The purpose of this background study is to review existing legal frameworks in Canada, the US and Mexico as well as international instruments and institutions dealing with this issue.
When Canada, Mexico and the United States established the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), they also agreed on an environmental side accord, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). One of the principal aims of the NAAEC is the promotion of effective enforcement by the Parties of their domestic environmental legislation. Accordingly, the […]
CEC Secretariat determinations and other documents issued through 31 August 1997, relating to specific submissions, were compiled in the Winter 1998 (Volume 1) edition of this series. The present volume includes CEC Secretariat documents on specific submissions issued through 31 August 2000.
On 2 April 1997 the Sierra Legal Defence Fund and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice) jointly filed a submission with the Secretariat, pursuant to Article 14 of the NAAEC (the “Submitters’ April 1997 Submission”). The Submission was filed on behalf of the following non-governmental organizations from Canada and the United States: the […]
