Environmental Defence Research Reports
Environmental Defence regularly publishes reports on critical environmental issues. All of our published reports are available to download for free.
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Greening Cities
- Money and Politics in Simcoe County: Shining a Light on Municipal Election Financing. March 2010
Greening Canada's Building: Report Card. December 2009 December 2009
- Places To Sprawl: Report on Municipal Conformity with the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, as provided for under Ontario's Places to Grow Act August 2009
- Tomorrow Today: How Canada can make a world of difference March 2008
- For The Greener Good: Steps we can all take to achieve sustainable communities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
- Green Gravel: Priorities for Aggregate Reform. August 2007
- Greenbelt Report Card: 2nd Anniversary Edition. February 2007.
- Greenbelt Report Card: Grading implementation and progress in Year 1. February 2006
- Urban Development in Simcoe County - Public Opinion Poll. June 2005.
- Submission to the Standing Committee on General Government on Bill 136, Places to Grow Act, April 2005
- Waiting for the Ark: Endangered
Species in the Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt November 2004
- Housing Prices and Greenbelt Protection:
Facts and Fiction October 2004
- Still There for the Saving: An Assessment
of Recent Development Activity on the Oak Ridges Moraine
October 2003
Protecting People
- The Toxic Nation Guide to Cosmetics Laws: Canada vs. the European Union. July 2010
- Down The Drain. July 2010
- Public Opinion Poll: Getting Ontario Off Oil. June 2010 XLS File
- Letter to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty signed by 30 environmental, health and planning groups.. June 2010 PDF File (This letter asks Premier McGuinty to transition Ontario from oil to clean energy.)
- Dirty Oil, Dirty Air: Ottawa's broken pollution promise. May 2010
- No Silver Lining: An Investigation Into BPA Canned Foods. May 2010
- Not so Sexy: The Health Risks of Secret Chemicals in Fragrance, Canadian Edition. May 2010
- Falling Behind: Canada's Lost Clean Energy Jobs. May 2010
- A Comparison of California and British Columbia's Low Carbon Fuel Standards. April 2010
- Partners in Pollution 2: An Update on the Continuing Canadian and United States Contributions to Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Ecosystem Pollution. April 2010
- Letter to Prime Minster Harper and President Obama: Groups Urge Toronto G20 to Include Climate Action. April 2010
- Tar Sands: Submission to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. April 2010
- Public Opinion Poll: Quebec and the Alberta Oil Sands. February 2010
- Petrodollar Brief January 2010
- Access to Information Request: Oil Sands Issue Papers from Natural Resources Canada. January 2010
- Just Visiting: Stephen Harper's Climate Insincerity September 2009
- Opinion Poll: Global Warming, cap-and-trade and the role of the Provinces (Council of the Federation meeting). August 2009
- PVC-Free Back-to-School Guide August 2009
- Cap and Trade Design Principles for Canada July 2009
- Up to the Gills: 2009 Update on Pollution in Great Lakes Fish July 2009
- Backgrounder: Sewage Treatment Plants and the proposed Toxics Reduction Act in Ontario. May 2009.
- Divided We Fall: The Tar Sands vs. The Rest of Canada May 2009
- Freedom From Dirty Oil: Ontario's Tar Sands Decision January 2009
- 11 Million Litres A Day: The Tar Sands Leaking Legacy December 2008
- Perceptions of Alberta's Oil Sands: An Opinion Survey in Quebec. October 2008
- Volatile Vinyl: The New Shower Curtain's Chemical Smell. June 2008. (released in conjunction with the US-based Center for Health, Environment and Justice)
- Tar Sands: Feeding U.S. Refinery Expansions with Dirty Fuel (produced in conjunction with the Environmental Integrity Project in Washington, DC). June 2008
- The Alberta Oil Sands: A Telephone Survey of Canadians March 2008
- Canada's Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth February 2008
- Toxic Baby Bottles in Canada: Bisphenol A Leaching from Popular Brands of Polycarbonate Baby Bottles February 2008 (File Size: 445KB)
- Great Lakes Blueprint September 2007 (File Size: 3.4M)
- Up to the Gills: Pollution in Great Lakes Fish . July 2007 (File Size: 1M)
- The New Clean Air and Climate Change Act: A Primer. April 2007
- Remarks on Bill 164 before the Ontario Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly. April 2007.
- Remarks on Bill C-30 before the House of Commons Legislative Committee. February 2007.
- Toxic Nation on PARLIAMENT HILL:
A Report on Pollution in Four Canadian Politicians Jan 2007
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SUR LA COLLINE DU PARLEMENT: Rapport sur la pollution chez quatre politiciens canadiens Jan 2007
- Remarks on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. December 2006
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Polluted Children, Toxic Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadian Families June 2006
- Partners in Pollution: An Assessment of Continuing Canadian and United States Contributions to Great Lakes Pollution February 2006
- Toxic Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadians. November 2005
- Great Lakes, Great Pollution June 2005
- Fact Sheet: Industrial Pollution Spills in Ontario May 2005
- Survey Says...an evaluation
of the effectiveness of Responsible Care
December 2004
- Putting Factory Farms to the
Test: A Guide to Community-based Water Monitoring
December 2004
- Shattering the Myth of Pollution
Progress in Canada: A National Report
December 2004
- Making Waves: An evaluation of Toronto's beaches
for the Blue Flag Program
June 2004
- Metallic Lunch: An Analysis of Heavy Metals
in the Canadian Diet
May 2003
- Arsenic Lurks in Canadian Playgrounds: IS YOUR
CHILD SAFE?
January 2003