Aamjiwnaang First Nation

The owners of a Sarnia, Ont., plastics plant that has been emitting dangerous levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene for years say they need more time to comply with tougher federal rules.

Provincial governments allow companies to pollute our air and water. The feds are moving to change that, but not fast enough.

As residents in Ontario's Chemical Valley grapple with dangerously high levels of benzene, air monitoring data also reveals very high levels of sulphur dioxide that environmental advocates urge must be brought under control.

Patty Hajdu says the First Nations Clean Water Act will be “another tool” for nations to curb environmental racism and protect their waters — but that Conservative actions in the House have only obstructed its progress.

The discovery that pollution from a paper mill is contributing to long-standing mercury poisoning afflicting the nearby First Nation is another example of how widespread and persistent the problem has become, federal MPs say.

Ontario's Ministry of the Environment has ordered a petrochemical facility in Sarnia to suspend its production operations after high benzene emissions, first flagged by a neighbouring First Nation.

Representatives from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation say they are bearing the brunt of environmental racism in Chemical Valley, and are in Ottawa to push world governments to give Indigenous nations a seat at the table as negotiations for a global plastics treaty unfold.

Reforms to Canada’s leading environmental law are finally here, but it's only the beginning for front-line communities.

It is time to shift our lens and bring into focus that our society’s plastic addiction has become a matter of life and death.

A new tool that measures the environmental quality of any urban street in Canada — and maps it out in colour — illustrates vividly the many neighbourhoods in the country that have poor environment scores, neighbourhoods that are often home to racialized communities.

Environmental Commissioner Dianne Saxe said Ontario has turned a blind eye to "outrageous" pollution that's adversely affecting several Indigenous communities.

There are 57 polluters registered with the Canadian and U.S. governments within 25 kilometres. Are the chemicals, spills and illnesses related?

PCBs were banned nationwide in 1977, but First Nations near Chemical Valley say the companies have continued leaking the harmful compound in their communities.