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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

    Coal shouldn’t be in our neighbourhoods – here’s how one B.C. community fought back

    MEDIA ADVISORY: Zoom Press Conference May 13, 2021 – Tribal community, businesses, local officials, allied groups call on Enbridge to cease illegal operation of Line 5

    Ontario wants YOU to pick up litter while it trashes improvements to the Blue Box

    The numbers are in: Big Oil made out like bandits during the pandemic

    Stopping Climate Change for Mental Health

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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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    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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    Meet The Team

    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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