Environment Canada is the agency with overall responsibility for the development and implementation of policies related to environmental protection, monitoring, and research within the government of Canada. Parts of this mandate are shared with other...

Canada's Department of the Environment, commonly known as Environment Canada, was founded in 1971. It was created to bring the different aspects of Canadian environmental policy, which had until then been split between several different...

Environment Canada (EC), legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act ( R.S., 1985, c. E-10 ), is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for coordinating environmental...

Environment Canada published a notice on March 4, 2006 in the Canada Gazette, Part I, pursuant to paragraph 71(1) (a) and (b) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999). The notice requires companies that manufactured or imported more than 100 kilograms...

Good science is the essential foundation of Environment Canada, its policies, programs and regulations. It is the basis for determining national environmental priorities. Science provides Environment Canada with an understanding of the environment and of humanity's relationship to it, with solutions to environmental...

When Canada and the United States approved the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement in 1972, the running joke in Cleveland was that anyone unlucky enough to fall into the Cuyahoga River would decay rather than drown.The Cuyahoga, which meanders through the city before reaching Lake...