Pollutants and Health

The CEC works on projects that serve to support cooperative initiatives on enhancing air quality, management of chemicals, pollutant releases and transfers at a North American scale, to prevent or correct the adverse effects of pollution on human and ecosystem health.
North American Strategy for Catalyzing Cooperation on Dioxins and Furans, and Hexachlorobenzene 10/28/2011
Trinational Biomonitoring Study
Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Selected Metals in the Blood of First-Birth Mothers in Southern Canada and Mexico and in Women of Reproductive Age in the United States
 10/26/2011
Annotated Bibliography on the Environmental Effects of Biofuels 08/15/2008
Toxic Chemicals and Indigenous Communities
Two case studies explore how the CEC?s North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Project can better serve indigenous and tribal communities
 09/25/2007
Vision for North American Air Quality Management 06/27/2007
Concept Description: Establishment of a Foundation for Chemicals Management Across North America 03/22/2007
Concept Description: Promotion of a Sustainable Regional Approach to Monitoring and Assessment of To 03/22/2007
Concept Description: Reduce the Risk from Chemicals of Concern to North America 03/22/2007
Concept Description: Improve Environmental Performance through a Sector Approach to the Sound Manage 03/22/2007
Mexico National Emissions Inventory, 1999: Six Northern States 06/30/2005
Best Available Technology for Air Pollution Control: Analysis Guidance and Case Studies for North America 04/04/2005
Background Document & Key Issues Related to Lindane in the North American Region 01/19/2005
Estimating Air Pollution Emissions from Fossil Fuel use in the Electricity Sector in Mexico 01/11/2005
Mercury in the Great Lakes Basin: Background Paper
Final Report
 05/25/2004
Air quality at congested border crossings: a preliminary assessment using routinely collected data 01/19/2004
Health Impacts of Air Pollution on Morbidity and Mortality Among Children of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico 11/07/2003
North American Workshop on Risk Assessment and Children's Environmental Health
February 2003
 02/12/2003
Education and Training on Children's Health and the Environment for Healthcare Professionals: Status
January 2003
 02/06/2003
Issue Papers on Enhancing Comparability Among PRTRs in North America
Issue Paper #1: Reporting Thresholds
 12/01/2002
Issue Papers on Enhancing Comparability Among PRTRs in North America
Issue Paper #2: Confidential Business Information
 12/01/2002
Update on the Ad Hoc PRTR Group - September 2002 09/24/2002
Status of Comparability Among the Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) in North America 08/07/2002
Joint Meeting of the Expert Advisory Board on Children Health and the Environment in North America
List of Participants
 05/31/2002
Joint Public Advisory Committee and Sound Management of Chemicals Working Group Session
17 June 2002
 05/10/2002
North American Trade and Transportation Corridors: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Strategies
Final Report
 08/30/2001
Priorities for Reinforcing Environmental Management Capacities in Mexico 06/28/2001
North American Trade and Transportation Corridors: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Strategies 03/09/2001
Meeting of the Consultative Group for the North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PR
Special Session on Tools that Use PRTR Data
 03/06/2001
Background Paper for the Roundtable Discussion on Opportunities and Challenges of PRTR Reporting in 03/05/2001
US Status Report on Mercury Activities
February 2000
 02/01/2001
Long-range Air Transport of Dioxin from North American Sources to Ecologically Vulnerable Receptors 10/03/2000
Long-Range Transport of Ground-Level Ozone and Its Precursors: Assessment of Methods to Quantify Transboundary Transport Within the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. 11/11/1997
Continental Pollutant Pathways: An Agenda for Cooperation to Address Long-Range Transport of Air Pol
An Agenda for Cooperation to Address Long-Range Transport of Air Pollution in North America
 01/01/1997
The CEC’s 2010–2015 Strategic Plan sets out a number of five-year strategic objectives in support of each of the CEC Council’s priorities. Read more