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The Issues

Kicking Out Toxic Chemicals

Ensuring safe products are on our shelves.

Ending Climate Change

Stopping climate change and creating jobs in the clean economy.

Protecting Ontario’s Environment

Environmental rollbacks are allowing more sprawl to pave over prime farmland, aggregate operations to threaten water supplies and industry operations to threaten endangered species.

Safeguarding canada's freshwater

Protecting safe, clean water.

Ending Plastic Pollution

Creating a future free from plastic waste.

Exposing Alberta’s Inquiry

In 2019, the Alberta government launched a politically motivated “Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns.”

LATEST NEWS

We finally did it! Canada’s single-use plastic bans are for real

Senate passes first major update to Canadian Environmental Protection Act in two decades

Statement from Julia Levin, National Climate Program Manager, on a new Parliamentary Budget Office update on the Trans Mountain Pipeline

Environmental and health groups call out big polluters for lobbying the Senate to weaken and delay environmental protection bill

Statement from Karen Wirsig, Plastics Program Manager, on the Federal Government’s Release of Final Regulations to Ban Six Single-Use Plastics

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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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TOXIC LABELLING PROMISES NEED ACTION NOW!

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Canada: Environmental racism cannot be ignored.

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PROTECT THE GREAT LAKES: SHUTDOWN LINE 5

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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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