Seeking a Canada-wide Standard for Extended Producer Responsibility for mercury-containing compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs)

Title: Seeking a Canada-wide Standard for Extended Producer Responsibility for mercury-containing compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) Letter to Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Resource Type: Letter Content: CPCHE-Letter-to-CCME-EPR-for-CFLs # of Pages: 4 Date authored: February 22, 2016 Author/s: Erica…

Media Release: Grassy Narrows sues Ontario over mercury health threat from clearcut logging

Media Release Ground breaking case invokes Charter to protect First Nation community from toxic harm Toronto – Today the Grassy Narrows First Nation is filing legal proceedings against Ontario asking the Divisional Court to overturn provincial plans for a decade of clearcut logging…

Grassy Narrows First Nation – Notice of Application to Divisional Court for Judicial Review

Title: Notice of Application to Divisional Court for Judicial Review BETWEEN: GRASSY NARROWS FIRST NATION and SHERRY FOBISTER, WILLIAM FOBISTER, SENIOR, SIMON FOBISTER and CHIEF ROGER FOBISTER, SENIOR on their own behalf and on behalf of all other members of…

Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Policy Implications

Part 3 in this series summarizes the challenges that exist in evaluating scientific evidence of associations between chemical exposures and health outcomes, particularly for endocrine disrupting chemicals and related challenges to existing regulatory approaches.

Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Focus on Endocrine Disruption and Obesogens

Part 2 in this series recaps the main findings of the study, summarizes the epigenetic/environmental basis of disease, notes implications of endocrine disruption science, and discusses obesity risk factors in the context of emerging science on chemicals suspected as obesogens and diabetogens

Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Introduction to the Scoping Review

Part One of this series summarizes main findings, context, and trends within two cross-cutting themes: the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and the Multiple Determinants of Health