Industrial pollution and waste encompass the full range of unwanted substances and losses generated by industrial activities, including emissions to air or surface waters and the substances sent to sewage treatment plants, deposited in landfills, released or applied to the land, treated, injected underground, controlled through storage, recycled or burned for energy recovery.
—the continuous saltwater bodies that cover more than 70 percent of the earth’s surface—shape its climate, provide a means of transport and are home to an important part of the planet’s biodiversity. —where land meets the sea—provide a wide range of valued goods and services, including fisheries, trade routes, recreation and tourism, oil and gas […]
are directly related to a variety of human and ecological needs: agricultural, industrial, domestic and environmental. Human development and the environment depend on adequate supplies of clean water.
(PBTs) are chemicals that do not degrade easily in the environment. PBTs typically accumulate in fatty tissues and are slowly metabolized, often increasing in concentration within the food chain. Certain PBTs have been linked to adverse health effects in both humans and animals.
is a colorless, highly irritating gas created by photochemical reactions between nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds produced largely by fuel combustion, gasoline vapors and chemical solvents.
This documentary survey, which follows-up on previous “gray literature” studies, has as its primary purpose the accession, collection, and assessment of potentially valuable information on persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic substances (PBTS) from academic institutions throughout Mexico. This is information that may have been archived or is not otherwise readily available either in recognized scientific journals or […]
The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation obliges the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation to “periodically address the state of the environment in the territories of the Parties.” To meet this obligation, the Secretariat has developed this report——with the support of environmental reporting experts from the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
This paper uses data on trade in services from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and data on the pollution intensity of various industries from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to demonstrate that the correlation between services trade and pollution intensity is negative.
The objective of this paper is to assess the environmental impact of trade liberalization on the cross border transportation on two international borders between three countries, using econometrics.
This report summarizes the work done by the Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention (C2P2) to develop and distribute a survey requesting information from small and medium-size manufacturers of electronic parts, components and equipment on the awareness of regulatory initiatives to reduce the use of toxic substances and assistance needed to improve environmental performance, and to […]
Two Case Studies Explore How the CEC’s North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Project Can Better Serve Indigenous and Tribal Communities
The report is based on pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs) from Canada, Mexico and the United States, which provide detailed information on types, locations and amounts of chemicals released or transferred by industrial facilities. The report supports a key objective of the CEC’s goal to provide information for decision-making at all levels of society.
