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Negotiations on a new Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (ECA) completed
30 November 2018 - Today the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States signed a new trade agreement to update and modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994. The Parties also announced the completion of negotiations on a new Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (ECA) that is expected to supersede the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation of 1994. ...
December 3, 2018
CEC receives a submission on a tourism development project in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Montreal, 15 November 2018—On 9 November, an organization in Mexico (the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce environmental laws with respect to the Chileno Bay Club tourism development located in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. In submission SEM-18-004 (Chileno Bay Club), the submitter maintains that the project developer went beyond the authorized...
November 15, 2018
CEC receives a submission on hydraulic fracturing in Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Montreal, 9 October 2018—On 3 October 2018, a resident from the municipality of Los Ramones in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico (the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce environmental laws with respect to hydraulic fracturing operations which are now causing harm to the health and the environment of the...
October 9, 2018
Hundreds of citizen scientists from across North America take part in the second trinational Monarch Monitoring Blitz
Montreal, 27 September 2018—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to announce the results of the second annual Trinational Monarch Monitoring Blitz (the Blitz), and thanks the hundreds of citizen scientists across North America who gathered critical data over a week-long period to support monarch butterfly conservation. Between July 28 and August 5, 486 citizen scientists from Canada, Mexico...
September 27, 2018
CEC Council Votes for the Publication of the Agricultural Burning in Sonora Factual Record
Montreal, 20 September 2018—The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) voted unanimously to instruct the CEC Secretariat to publish the factual record—available in English, Spanish and French—with regard to Submission SEM-16-001 (Agricultural Burning in Sonora). The Submission asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce provisions of the Environmental Protection Regulation (Reglamento de Equilibrio Ecológico y Protección al Medio...
September 20, 2018
CEC Council votes for the development of a factual record concerning the Alberta Tailing Ponds II submission
Montreal, 22 August 2018—The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) unanimously voted, in Council Resolution 18-01, to instruct the Secretariat of the CEC to develop a factual record with regard to Submission SEM-17-001 (Alberta Tailings Ponds II). The Submission asserted that Canada is failing to effectively enforce subsection 36(3) of the federal Fisheries Act in relation to alleged...
August 22, 2018
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