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Category CEPA Reform
Implementing the Right to a Healthy Environment – Consultation April 2024 – old
Thank you for responding to the "Right to a Healthy Environment" implementation consultation. Learn more, and access PCN's submission.
Hazard-based regulation to curb environmental impacts on health
If CEPA was indeed protecting public health, we would expect declining diseases from environmental exposures. Canadian examples point to the opposite. Endocrine-related obesity and metabolic syndrome, disorders of early development and sexual differentiation, and cancers in hormone-sensitive tissues have not been prevented. Endocrine disruption does not follow classic dose-response, so these substances must be regulated based on their innate hazard. With many thousands of EDCs, classes of similar chemicals require group actions.
Data and analyses to detect harms from toxic exposures in Canadians
A regulatory conclusion that an environmental exposure poses an “acceptable risk” is initially based on little data. Ethically, regulators should follow up to detect harms at the earliest possible opportunity. Relying on epidemiology can result in harms to generations.
Environmental and health groups call out big polluters for lobbying the Senate to weaken and delay environmental protection bill
Fourteen Canadian environmental and health groups are concerned about industry interference after learning that many of Canada’s biggest polluters sent a letter to the Senate Speaker to “urge the full Senate to reverse the amendments introduced by the Committee and pass Bill S-5 as it was originally introduced.”
Canadians and residents need due process and science in national law, to assess and regulate “wireless radiation”
Radiofrequency radiation from telecommunications can be bioactive. It needs to be assessed and regulated in Canada.
Linking Environment and Health
Your genes are not your destiny! Identical twins look different (at least to those who know them) and do not necessarily succumb to the same diseases. Key differences lie in…
Realizing the Right to a Healthy Environment
Four Key Steps to Making it Matter in CEPA Reform Share your priorities with Senators and Ministers The Right to a Healthy Environment is a tall order! This is a…
Falling Short on the “Right to a Healthy Environment”
Bill S-5 needs to launch important improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. (PCN in the National Observer)
Moving Canada off the toxic treadmill of key chemicals laws
Canada’s chemicals laws are two decades old. Parliament needs to modernize them properly. (PCN in the Hill Times.)