Event

Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Orlando Cabrera, Head of Unit, Environmental Quality, CEC
• Ing. Sergio Z. Villaseñor, Director General – Industry, Clean Energy and Air Quality Management Branch, Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, Semarnat)

National PRTR Program Updates

• Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)
  Tristan Lecompte, Environmental Program Officer, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• United States’ Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
  Alizabeth Olhasso, Chief, Data Analysis and Right-to-Know Branch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Mexico’s Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (Registro de Emisiones y Transferencia de Contaminantes – RETC)
  Ernesto Navarro, Director, Industrial Regulation and RETC, Semarnat

Break

Update on the North American PRTR Initiative, with a Demonstration of the Taking Stock Online Website, Database and Tools

Orlando Cabrera, Head of Unit; and Danielle Vallée, Lead, North American PRTR Initiative, CEC

Participants will learn about ongoing trinational collaboration to enhance the comparability of North American PRTR data and other activities, including improvements to Taking Stock Online. They will also have the opportunity to explore data on releases and transfers reported by thousands of facilities across the region.

Lunch [provided]

PRTRs and Pollution Prevention: How can P2 reporting be improved to make the information more useful?

Participants will have the opportunity to learn from and exchange with representatives of the automotive manufacturing industry, governments, environmental NGOs, and other experts.

• Pollution Prevention (P2) Challenge, Phase 1: Presentation and results of the assessment of P2 data for the North American automotive manufacturing sector and supply chain
  Danielle Vallée and Elizabeth Campos, Project Leads, CEC
• P2 and Circular Economy in the Automotive Industry
  – Alejandro Sosa, Director, Alianza Automotriz para La Sustentabilidad Ambiental (AASA)
  – Pablo Fernández, General Motors – President of the Circular Economy Working Group, AASA
• Best Practices for Waste Minimization and Managing Industrial Waste with the Decision Workflow Model for SDGs
  Sarah Sajedi, Director of R&D; and Gary Vegh, Senior Toxicologist, ERA Environmental

Break

PRTRs and Pollution Prevention: How can P2 reporting be improved to make the information more useful? (continued from Session 4)

• Pollution Prevention: Government Data Uses and Tools
  – Presentations by the three PRTR programs
  – Demonstration of the U.S. TRI Toxics Tracker tool – Charlotte (Charlie) Snyder, EPA, Data Analysis and Right to Know Branch
• Pollution Prevention Data Users, Uses and Needs: Environmental NGO Perspective
  John Jackson, Great Lakes Ecoregion Network
• Ideas for Phase 2 of the P2 Challenge
  Open discussion aimed at sharing ideas and suggestions for the second phase of the P2 Challenge, which will take place in 2025.

Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Day 1

What can the data for off-site transfers tell us?

• North American Off-site Transfers Data: Issues and Gaps
  Orlando Cabrera and Danielle Vallée, CEC 
• Analysis of NPRI Off-site Transfers and Disposals Data
  Alicia Berthiaume, Physical Scientist, NPRI Development, ECCC 
• Off-site Transfers: Data Quality Efforts
  Velu Senthil, Director of Data Quality, U.S. Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) 
• Tracking Cross-border Transfers Using PRTR Data (Collaboration with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD)
  Orlando Cabrera and Danielle Vallée, CEC

Break

How can PRTR data be used to address concerns about industrial pollution and advance environmental sustainability?

During this open discussion, participants will be invited to share their experiences, questions and ideas relative to:

• Their uses of PRTR data and how the information can be improved to better meet their needs
• Specific suggestions for how the CEC can support users’ needs – such as data analyses, improvements to Taking Stock Online, outreach activities, etc.

Closing Remarks and Meeting Adjournment