Joint Letter: Advocacy Groups Urge Radionuclide Screening Under GLWQA

110 environmental, health and other advocacy groups nominated radionuclides in 2016 and again in 2022 to be named Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA). In June 2025, the Annex 3 co-leads from the…

Submission: Response to Updated Draft State of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report

In July 2024, ECCC and Health Canada released an updated version of the report. Public interest organizations, including CELA, continue to respond to the government departments' proposed findings that the class of PFAS meet the criteria as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

Submission: Status of ratification of BAN Amendment (electronic waste) under the Basel Convention

Letter to Environment and Climate Change Canada: Re: Status of ratification of BAN Amendment (electronic waste) under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.