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It's Hard to Spray Goodbye
Ontario enacts province-wide pesticide ban; fine print upsets greens |
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19 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:07 AM on 19 Jun 2008 The Canadian province of Ontario has just passed a pesticide ban that by next spring would prohibit the use of more than 80 ingredients and 300 pesticide products across the province. However, many greens and public-health advocates have decried the just-passed legislation, saying it could ultimately end up damaging public health. The major problem with the ban, criti ... |
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| Topics: Canada, legislation, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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When Is a Lake Not a Lake?
Canadian lakes set to be reclassified as mining-waste dumps |
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17 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:07 AM on 17 Jun 2008 Sixteen lakes across Canada are set to be quietly reclassified as allowable areas for mines to dump toxic waste. While Canadian law technically disallows chucking harmful substances into fish habitat, lakes can be reclassified as "tailings impoundment areas" under a little-known subsection of mining effluent regulations. With a lake at their disposal (literally), min ... |
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| Topics: Canada, mining, news, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Ontario plans to ban garden pesticides |
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23 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:14 PM on 23 Apr 2008 Photo: Laura Gibb The province of Ontario plans to ban the sale and use of garden pesticides. The legislation would keep lawn-owners in Canada's most populous province from using more than 70 chemicals present in more than 300 products. Critics cry double standard, though, as Ontario's golf courses, farms, and forests would be exempt from the ban. If approved, Ontario's pesticide regulations will ... |
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| Topics: Canada, gardening, green living, news, regulation, toxics (all these topics) |
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Bisphenol, Eh?
Health Canada primed to declare bisphenol A toxic |
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15 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:43 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Canada's health department is expected to become the first regulatory body ever to declare chemical bisphenol A a toxic substance that humans should reduce their exposure to. BPA shows up in (and leaches from) hard plastic water bottles, aluminum cans, and other containers that consumers regularly eat and drink from. The chemical, which has been linked to reproductive anomalies, has come under some ... |
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| Topics: Canada, food, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Border in the Court
U.S. Supreme Court refuses Canadian company's pollution suit appeal |
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08 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:42 AM on 08 Jan 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Canadian mining company in a cross-border pollution case, in effect sustaining an earlier appeals court ruling holding the company liable for pollution under U.S. law. Just 10 miles north of the U.S. border in British Columbia, the mining company Teck Cominco has been operating a smelter that from 1892 until 1994 du ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, international politics, litigation, news, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Canadian outdoor-goods retailer won't sell plastic water bottles |
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10 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 9:59 AM on 10 Dec 2007 Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada's largest outdoor-goods retailer, has yanked Nalgene bottles and other polycarbonate plastic containers from its shelves, concerned about toxic bisphenol A leaching from the plastic. MEC -- the Canadian equivalent of U.S.-based retailer REI -- has been one of Canada's largest sellers of the bottles. Canada's health agency is currently stud ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, green living, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Great Blight North
Canadians' bodies polluted with over three dozen toxic chemicals |
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10 Nov 2005 |
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| The Great Blight North Canadians' bodies polluted with over three dozen toxic chemicals O, Canada: great big land of maple syrup, socialized health care, and ... toxic bodies. According to a new report, average Canadians may be packed with more than 40 human-made carcinogens, hormone disruptors, and substances that mess with reproduction and fetal development. Researchers tested 11 volunteers -- whose lifestyles represented a cross-se ... |
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