The Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC) initiative is a trinational effort to reduce the risks of toxic substances to human health and the environment in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
This document summarizes the results of Phase I of an ongoing initiative to develop a set of indicators of children’s health and the environment in North America. This initiative was launched by the CEC Council with its adoption of the Cooperative Agenda for Children’s Health and the Environment in North America through Council Resolution 02-06.
Canada, Mexico, and the United States are currently preparing a Phase 1 of a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on dioxins, furans and hexachlorobenzene to reduce environmental exposure to these substances.
Each year, thousands of facilities across North America publicly report on the amounts of certain hazardous chemicals that they release to the air, water and land, or transfer off-site for further management. This information is compiled in what are internationally known as pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs)— databases managed by governments as a means of ensuring that the public has access to information on chemicals being released and transferred into and through their communities.
Each year, thousands of facilities across North America publicly report on the amounts of certain hazardous chemicals that they release to the air, water and land, or transfer off-site for further management. This information is compiled in what are internationally known as pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs)— databases managed by governments as a means of ensuring that the public has access to information on chemicals being released and transferred into and through their communities.
Each year, thousands of facilities across North America publicly report on the amounts of certain hazardous chemicals that they release to the air, water and land, or transfer off-site for further management. This information is compiled in what are internationally known as pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs)— databases managed by governments as a means of ensuring that the public has access to information on chemicals being released and transferred into and through their communities.
The use of chlordane has been eliminated in Canada, Mexico and the United States as a result of a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) negotiated by the three countries through the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America.
Significant reductions in mercury use and emissions are anticipated in North America under an agreement reached by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on mercury, adopted by the three countries through the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America, provides a strategic framework, specific actions, targets and […]
The purpose of this project is to assess the feasibility of assembling a set of indicators of children’s health and the environment for North America including Canada, Mexico and the United States, with publication of a first report on the state of children’s health and the environment scheduled for 2004. While it is recognized that […]
This mercury hot spot map indicates 244 locations where the amount of mercury contamination exceeds the background, or naturally occurring, level in the environment.
International trade policies and government intervention through subsidies and indirect forms of support influence agricultural production choices such as type of crop or livestock, mode (technology and inputs), and quantity. Such trends can result in global effects in trade level, industry structure, and production location, which in turn may affect the state of the environment. Recently, the adoption of the US Farm Bill and the launch of negotiations on agriculture in the Doha Round has brought the issue of agricultural subsidies to the forefront of trade policy discussions.
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on Mercury is intended to assist the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States in reducing the exposure of North American ecosystems, fish and wildlife and humans to mercury, through the prevention and reduction of anthropogenic releases of mercury to the North […]
