Access to affordable and safe housing is among the key challenges and social inequities revealed by the COVID pandemic. Calls for a just and green recovery need to include extending environmental protection to the indoor environment.
Two webinars focused on the growing threat of PFAS in the Great Lakes basin.
Bev Thorpe with Clean Production Action and CELA's Fe de Leon blog about the need for better chemical safety provisions in CEPA to prevent toxic exposures from consumer products.
Comments from 41 NGOs on Environment and Climate Change Canada and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Draft Screening Criteria for Nominated Chemicals of Mutual Concern under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Author: Toxics Free Great Lakes Binational Network Download submission:…
The class of chemicals called PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) are often referred to as ‘the forever chemicals’ because they are highly persistent in the environment and will take hundreds if not thousands of years to disappear from the soil and groundwater where they accumulate.
A call for Canadian Citizen Action to protect the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River Ecosystem PFAS-Fact-Sheet
