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May 2024
In a big win for the chemical industry and big agriculture, the federal government waters down a program to monitor for pesticides in the Canadian environment
(Ottawa) — Environmental groups are expressing their frustration with the federal government’s plan to scale-back a proposed ambitious pesticide water monitoring program. Earlier this year, the federal government released a proposed water monitoring framework. Environmental groups say the originally proposed program was to be robust, including citizen monitoring and participation to help Canadians understand how