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Areas of expertise: Toxic substances, Great Lakes, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, international agreements on chemicals management, right-to-know
Biography:
Fe de Leon is a senior researcher and a paralegal with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA).
Fe holds a Masters degree in Public Health. She has worked extensively on chemicals and waste management policy issues particularly focused in the Great Lakes Basin, the federal chemicals management plan and international agreements such at the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent.
Fe has worked collaboratively with Canadian and international non‐governmental organizations to support the listing of chrysotile asbestos for Prior Informed Consent Procedures under the Rotterdam Convention. She has also worked at length to promote community right-to-know and regimes, and to strengthen public participation in decision-making processes with underserved and disadvantaged communities, through the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and using pollution data from Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI).
She was a member of Canada`s Chemicals Management Plan Stakeholder Advisory Council from 2007 to 2019. Fe has been a member of the NPRI Working Group since 2018 and was appointed to the Great Lakes Water Quality Board in 2023.