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Implementation Framework for the Right to a Healthy Environment under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
Government of Canada
April 22, 2024
Bill S-5 amended CEPA to include the "RIght to a Healthy Environment." This consultation addressed implementation of this new "right."
Biodiversity, Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Endocrine Disruptors, Exposure Assessment, Hazard Assessment, Petrochemicals, Plastic, Radiofrequency Radiation, Risk Assessment, Telecommunications & Radiation
Amending the Canadian Environmental Protection Act for 2022 and Beyond
Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, Parliament of Canada
November 4, 2022
The Right to a Healthy Environment will only be realised if CEPA is amended to enable the best choices to be made regarding substances and technologies. Permitting everything that slips...
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Risk Assessment, Telecommunications & Radiation
Followup of Bill S-5 NGO testimony to ENVI
Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development
November 28, 2022
Protecting human and environmental health requires recognizing characteristics of hazardous chemicals and mechanisms of toxicity. The list prescribed in CEPA, is decades old. We discusses how increases in chronic diseases...
Amending the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (Bill S-5) for 2022 and Beyond
Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
April 29, 2022
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Endocrine Disruptors, Exposure Assessment, Hazard Assessment, Plastic, Radiofrequency Radiation, Risk Assessment, Telecommunications & Radiation
Fragrances and Health: Input to Health Canada About Cosmetic Regulations
Health Canada
August 15, 2021
Fragrances are mixtures of thousands of possible chemicals. These chemicals may interfere with hormone actions, cause allergies and chemical sensitivities, affect the nervous system and contribute to cancers. Fragrances have...
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Endocrine Disruptors, Transparency
PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances) on food contact materials: consequences for compost and the food chain
Environment and Climate Change Canada
December 8, 2020
Screening Assessment of Six Naphthalene Sulfonic Acids and Salts
Environment and Climate Change Canada
September 2, 2020
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Endocrine Disruptors, Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons
Re: Chlorpyrifos updated environmental risk assessment (PRVD2019-05)
Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Health Canada
August 29, 2019
Chlorpyrifos is an insecticide that emerged from WW II nerve gas chemistry. It damages the nervous system - even young brains even before babies are born - and can cause...
