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    The Issues

    Kicking Out Toxic Chemicals

    Ensuring safe products are on our shelves.

    Climate & Clean Economy

    Stopping climate change and creating jobs in the clean economy.

    Creating Livable Communities

    Growing Ontario’s Greenbelt and developing functional, livable cities.

    Ending Plastic Pollution

    Creating a future free from plastic waste

    Safeguarding canada's freshwater

    Protecting safe, clean water.

    Protecting Ontario's Environment

    Stopping the province's attacks on farmland, forests, wetlands and endangered species.

    LATEST NEWS

    Statement from Environmental Defence, Ontario Nature and Ecojustice on Bill 257 regarding legislation to exempt MZOs from planning laws and policy

    The Big Sprawl: Ontario is set to unleash sprawl on huge swathes of countryside unless we fight back

    As Canada hosts the first global Powering Past Coal Summit, why are we still shipping coal overseas?

    As Canada hosts the first global Powering Past Coal Summit, groups demand an end to ongoing coal mining and exports

    What was good and what was missing from the first meeting between the President and Prime Minister

    Take Action

    Less talk. More action. Whether you have 30 seconds, 30 minutes or 3 hours per month, we have action that you can take to protect Canada’s freshwater bodies, our green space and our climate.

    When you join with thousands of other Canadians, you can make change happen.

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    Tell the Ontario government you don't want a warehouse complex built on rare and provincially significant wetlands in Pickering

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    Will 2021 be a good year for the environment? Here are our top 10 predictions

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    Get toxics out of cosmetics and other personal care products

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    Stop the destructive Highway 413

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    Environmental Defence is a group of innovative, passionate and determined problem-solvers who are making a difference.  We are policy experts, musicians, photographers and bloggers, supported by scientists, business leaders, lawyers and community members working hard to protect Canada’s environment and human health.


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