Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
Annual Report to Parliament for April 2020 to March 2021

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Review of the Act
• 2. Monitoring the environment and human health
  • 2.1 Chemicals in our environment
  • 2.2 Chemicals in humans
  • 2.3 Air pollutants and greenhouse gases monitoring
  • 2.4 Disposal at sea site monitoring program
  • 2.5 Water quality monitoring
  • 2.6 Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
• 3. Addressing key risks
  • 3.1 Chemicals
    • 3.1.1 Information gathering
    • 3.1.2 Existing substances risk assessment
    • 3.1.3 Existing substances risk management
    • 3.1.4 New substances risk assessment
    • 3.1.5 New substances risk management
    • 3.1.6 Communications activities
  • 3.2 Living organisms
    • 3.2.1 Risk assessment activities
    • 3.2.2 Risk management activities
  • 3.3 Air pollutants and greenhouse gases
    • 3.3.1 Risk assessment activities
    • 3.3.2 Risk management activities
  • 3.4 Drinking water quality
  • 3.5 Waste
    • 3.5.1 Plastic pollution
    • 3.5.2 Disposal at sea
    • 3.5.3 Hazardous waste and hazardous recyclable material
  • 3.6 Environmental emergencies
  • 3.7 Government operations and federal and aboriginal land
• 4. Reporting programs and emission inventories
  • 4.1 Reporting programs
  • 4.2 Emission and release inventories
• 5. Administration and public participation
  • 5.1 Federal, provincial, territorial cooperation
  • 5.2 Federal-provincial/territorial agreements
  • 5.3 Public participation
• 6. Compliance promotion and enforcement
  • 6.1 Compliance promotion priorities
  • 6.2 Compliance promotion activities
  • 6.3 Enforcement priorities
  • 6.4 Enforcement activities
    • 6.4.1 Inspections
    • 6.4.2 Investigations
    • 6.4.3 Enforcement measures
  • 6.5 Prosecutions, tickets and EPAMs
  • 6.6 Enforcement highlights
  • 6.7 International enforcement cooperation
• 7. Report on research
  • 7.1 Chemical substances
    • 7.1.1 Environment and Climate Change Canada research
      • 7.1.1.1 Chemicals in the atmosphere
      • 7.1.1.2 Impact of chemicals on wildlife and fish
    • 7.1.2 Health Canada research
      • 7.1.2.1 Methods
      • 7.1.2.2 Exposure characterization
      • 7.1.2.3 Effects of chemicals on human health
      • 7.1.2.4 Nanomaterials
  • 7.2 Air pollutants and greenhouse gases
    • 7.2.1 ECCC research
    • 7.2.2 HC research
  • 7.3 Water quality
    • 7.3.1 ECCC research
• 8. Additional information