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CEC report looks at environmentally sound management of end-of-life batteries from electric-drive vehicles

Study warns that new battery design may reduce incentive for effective recycling Montreal, 22 December 2015—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has released a new report outlining best practices to recapture and recycle the materials used in electric-drive vehicle (EDV) batteries once they reach the end of their service lives. The study—carried-out in partnership with Environment Canada, Mexico’s Secretaría de Medio...

December 22, 2015

CEC Council votes for publication of a factual record concerning the Sumidero Canyon II submission

Montreal, 18 December 2015—The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) today voted unanimously, Council Resolution 15-05, to make public the factual record concerning submission SEM-11-002 (Sumidero Canyon II), filed with the Secretariat on 29 November 2011, by the Comité Pro-Mejoras de la Ribera Cahuaré (the “Submitter”). On 17 September 2015, the CEC Secretariat delivered to the Council a...

December 18, 2015

Commission for Environmental Cooperation announces Lindsay Brumwell as Chair of its Joint Public Advisory Committee

Montreal, 16 December 2015—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation's (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) has chosen Canadian JPAC member Lindsay Brumwell as committee chair for 2016. She will succeed Mexican JPAC member Gustavo Alanís Ortega, a lawyer and university professor at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, who has been chair during 2015. “The Commission for Environmental Cooperation is increasingly relevant as a...

December 16, 2015

APPLY NOW: Deadline extended for the CEC’s new trilateral energy efficiency initiative

Companies across North America now have until 8 January 2016 to apply for our Energy Management Pilot Program! Montreal, 30 November 2015—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is spearheading an innovative pilot program to help North American companies reduce their energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In partnership with Natural Resources Canada, Mexico’s Comisión Nacional para el Uso Eficiente de la Energía, and...

November 30, 2015

CEC Secretariat welcomes new Council member Catherine McKenna

Montreal, 5 November 2015—The Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) welcomes as a new member of the CEC Council, Catherine McKenna, who was appointed on 4 November 2015 as Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Minister McKenna joins the other two current members of the Council: Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Mexico’s Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, and...

November 5, 2015

CEC receives a submission on municipal wastewater drop shafts in the US

Montreal, 5 November 2015—On 3 November 2015, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) received a submission asserting that the United States is failing to effectively enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regarding sewer drop shafts used to convey municipal wastewater. Submission SEM-15-003 (Municipal Wastewater Drop Shafts) was filed by Robert Schreiber, a resident of the United States, (the “Submitter”), and...