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...and Canada only) or 1-724-776-4970 (outside the U.S. and Cana...
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According to the Washington DCbased Center for Public Integrity, as-yet-unpublished governmental research suggests elevated infant mortality and increased cancer risks for the more than 9 million people who live in select areas in the U.S. around the Great Lakes. * Why did we fall so far behind? The beginning of the downward slide coincided with a 1987 decision by governments to discontinue the monitoring and assessment roles previously carried out by the quasiindependent International Joint Commission and replace them with reports by the less independent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada. Since the early 1990s, the environment also began to slip on both countries' political agendas.
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Neighborhoods that abut many American ports, including the Port of Newark, have worse air pollution and far higher rates of cancer, asthma and other respiratory problems than the national average, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. To help clean up the air, the United States and Canada announced a plan Monday to drastically reduce harmful air pollution from large tanker, container and cruise ships by requiring them to burn cleaner fuels within a buffer zone extending 200 miles from their coastlines.
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Last weekthe Crissy ReId Center held fts annual Community Heroes Awards where"10 ordinary people are celebrated fordoing extraordinary things to preserve, protect, and raise awareness about the urban environment of the San Francisco Bay Area." One of the 201 0 recipients was Novato scientist Marie Chan. Chan's particular concern is with multiple chemical sensitivities, a chronic medical condition resulting from exposure to pesticides, plastics, paints, etc. Because of her tireless work over the last few years,the Novato Unified School District now uses only sustainable, nontoxic cleaning supplies and is the only school district in the state to receive the California Department of Public Health's 2010 Achievement in Respiratory Health award for its implementation of theTools for Schools ...
... on our properties?" lust this year, Health Canada, the equivalent of the U.S. Environmental Protectiion Agency, announced it plans to ban the sale and applicatio...
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WASHINGTON States would be able to regulate trash from Canada and other nations under a bill approved by the House after Michigan lawmakers complained about foreign waste in their landfills. The legislation approved Wednesday would give states more power to limit the shipment and dumping of international municipal solid waste until the Environmental Protection Agency regulates trash from Canada.
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WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency is raising new objections to a proposed pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. In a letter to the State Department, the EPA said it is concerned about the risk of oil spills that could affect drinking water and ecosystems, as well as the possible effect of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline.
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LONG BEACH - More than a year after California was rebuffed in federal court for pursuing emission rules on freight ships, federal authorities are pushing to adopt similar restrictions that could prevent up to 33,000 premature deaths annually in the U.S. and Canada. In a meeting with the public Thursday in Long Beach, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a proposed law requiring ships to use cleaner fuels within 200 miles of the U.S. and Canadian coastline by 2020.
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CHICAGO, May 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Our Great Lakes, a report released recently by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada, takes a fresh, more user-friendly look at issues of major concern to Great Lakes area residents. The 25-page booklet addresses the state of the Great Lakes, what is being done to restore and protect them and practical ways in which everyone can help keep the lakes cleaner and healthier. It is a simplified version of the scientific 2003 State of the Great Lakes report that summarized information presented at the 2002 State of the Lakes Ecosystem conference. Our Great Lakes will debut at the International Association of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors' Conference this week in Quebec City, Canada.
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TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The complex, ever- changing Great Lakes ecosystem will be explored this week as U. S. and Canadian scientists and decision-makers from government, industry, environmental groups and academia meet at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto for the sixth biennial State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference. SOLEC runs from October 6-8, 2004. Established in 1994 by Environment Canada and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, SOLEC reports on the state of the Great Lakes and on progress toward achieving the goal of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem.
