ATSDR
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, United States
CAA
Clean Air Act, United States
CAC
Criteria Air Contaminant
CCME
Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
CEC
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
CEPA
Canadian Environmental Protection Act
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations, United States
COA
Annual Certificate of Operations (Cédula de Operación Anual), Mexico
Conagua
National Water Commission (Comisión Nacional del Agua), Mexico
CWA
Clean Water Act, United States
DGCARETC
General Directorate for Air Quality and Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (Dirección General de Calidad del Aire y Registro de Emisiones y Transferencia de Contaminantes)
DGGIMAR
General Directorate for the Comprehensive Management of Hazardous Materials and Activities (Dirección General de Gestión Integral de Materiales y Actividades Riesgosas)
DOF
Diario Oficial de la Federación, Mexico
ECCC
Environment and Climate Change Canada
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency, United States
EPCRA
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, United States
GHG
Greenhouse Gas
ISO
International Standards Organization
kg
kilogram
LGEEPA
General Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection Act (Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y Protección al Ambiente), Mexico
LGPGIR
General Law for the Prevention and Comprehensive Management of Waste (Ley General para la Prevención y Gestión Integral de los Residuos), Mexico
NAICS
North American Industrial Classification System
NAPRTR
North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Initiative
NGO
Nongovernmental organization
NOM
Official Mexican Norm (Norma Oficial Mexicana)
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, United States
NPRI
National Pollutant Release Inventory (Canada’s PRTR)
P2
Pollution Prevention
PBT
Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Substance
POP
Persistent Organic Pollutant
POTW
Publicly Owned Treatment Works (wastewater treatment facilities), United States
PRTR
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
RCRA
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, United States
RETC
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (Registro de Emisiones y Transferencia de Contaminantes), Mexico
ROE
Report on the Environment, United States
SDWA
Safe Drinking Water Act, United States
Semarnat
Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), Mexico
TEP
Toxicity Equivalency Potential
TRI
Toxics Release Inventory (United States’ PRTR)
UIC
Underground Injection Control program, United States
US
United States