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Southwest Intertie Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Plan Amendment, Appendicies

Description: Appendices accompanying a report assessing the environmental impact of a proposed Idaho Power Company 500kV Transmission Line, the Southwest Intertie Project, constructed from the Midpoint Substation near Shoshone, Idaho to a new proposed substation in the Dry Lake Valley northeast of Las Vegas. The appendices include a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations; a list of agencies and organizations contacted in the preparation of the draft statement; biological opinion, committee mitigation for th… more
Date: July 1993
Creator: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burley District Office.
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Southwest Intertie Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Plan Amendment

Description: Report assessing the environmental impact of a proposed Idaho Power Company 500kV Transmission Line, the Southwest Intertie Project, constructed from the Midpoint Substation near Shoshone, Idaho to a new proposed substation in the Dry Lake Valley northeast of Las Vegas. Discussed in the report are the the proposed plan, public participation in review of the draft plan, modifications and additional studies conducted in preparation of the final plan, errata, and comments and responses to the draf… more
Date: July 1993
Creator: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Burley District Office.
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Environmental Impact Statement: Shivwits Grazing Management

Description: Report discussing the environmental impact of a Bureau of Land Management proposal to establish a grazing management program on public land in the Shivwits Resource Area of the Arizona Strip District in Mohave County, Arizona. The impact statement analyzes the environmental, social and economic impacts of management changes and the building of associated range improvements and describes and analyzes the impacts that would result from the proposed grazing management plan and six alternatives to … more
Date: July 1980
Creator: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Arizona State Office.
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Instantánea de la basura en Quad Cities

Description: The Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois are located along the banks of the Upper Mississippi River. In 2022, litter traps were installed and maintained at three locations in Davenport, Iowa over a period of four months. These in-stream devices intercepted floating litter and prevented it from flowing farther downstream. The goal? To stop litter in its tracks and raise public awareness about the flow of litter downstream to the ocean.
Date: July 17, 2023
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Metrobús Reforma

Description: On 1 July 2020, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA or “the Agreement”) and the Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA) entered into force. Pursuant to ECA Article 2(3), the CEC “will continue to operate under the modalities in place as of entry into force of [the ECA].” This factual record was prepared in conformity with the provisions of NAAEC Article 15. On 2 February 2018, the organizations Academia Mexicana de Derecho Ambiental, A.C. and La Voz de Polanco, A.C. (hereinaft… more
Date: July 5, 2023
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proyecto City Park

Description: On 16 April 2019, the organization <em>Acción Colectiva Socioambiental</em>, A.C. (hereafter the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the Secretariat, in accordance with the provisions of NAAEC Article 14(1). The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law in relation to the City Park Project, in the City of León, Guanajuato, Mexico. At the time this submission was filed, the City Park Project was under construction. The Submitter asserts that Mexico… more
Date: July 4, 2023
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Guía para la elaboración de dictámenes de extracción no perjudicial CITES para especies maderables obtenidas mediante producción asistida en México

Description: Highlighting practical methodologies and essential considerations, the guide helps ensure that NDFs are conducted with scientific rigor and ecological awareness. It emphasizes the importance of management, monitoring and the need to consider factors like population status, distribution and harvest levels to protect species listed in CITES Appendix II. With a considerable timber trade in the region, this guidance is useful for promoting sustainable trade practices and conserving biodiversity. Th… more
Date: July 29, 2024
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trabajo de la CCA en materia de conservación de aves migratorias (2015–2018)

Description: Between 2015 and 2019, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) implemented two projects under its strategic pillar of Sustainable  communities and Ecosystems, included in CEC Strategic Plan 2015–2020 (CEC 2015). The project Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative (AMBI): The Americas’ Flyway Action Plan (2015–2016) (CEC 2015a, 2016 and 2017) was developed in response to the need to strengthen participation and collaboration among communities in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the c… more
Date: July 11, 2025
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Perspectivas ambientales en América del Norte para el año 2030

Description: This report summarizes recent research concerning the major forces and underlying trends that are likely to shape the environment of North America in 2030. The intention of this report is not to present a prediction of the future. Rather, it is to consider the possibilities that the future might hold in light of the environmental and social stresses facing North America and the world at this time.
Date: July 1, 2010
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Derecho y políticas ambientales en América del Norte, Volumen 9

Description: Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters, Secretariat Determinations under Articles 14 and 15 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, August 1997 through June 2002.
Date: July 23, 2002
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pastizales

Description: It does so by providing a trinational overview of information about the central North American grasslands and the conservation issues faced in the region. This contextual framework seeks to move the conservation agenda forward to the eventual development of a conservation strategy for the grasslands of North America that will integrate, build upon and enhance individual initiatives found in the three countries of North America that could complement each other.
Date: July 31, 2003
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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En balance: Emisiones y transferencia de contaminantes en América del Norte, 1994

Description: Providing the public with information on pollutant sources and risks is recognized by all three countries of North America as an important tool for protecting human health and the environment. In 1995, the CEC’s Council of Ministers decided to create a North American Pollutant Release Inventory to help the public better understand pollutant releases in North America as a whole. This report is the first in a series of annual reports on pollutant releases in North America based on information bro… more
Date: July 1, 1997
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluación del Mercado Latinomericano para bienes y servicios ambientales de América del Norte

Description: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation's (CEC) report, Assessing Latin American Markets for North American Environmental Goods and Services features such critical information as what makes multinational or North American partnerships successful, where markets are expanding, and where Mexico has been successful in developing clean technologies and adapting proven technologies from the US and Canada for use in its domestic market. The report also highlights how these, and other technologies… more
Date: July 1, 1996
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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En balance: Emisiones y transferencias de contaminantes en América del Norte, 1998

Description: North Americans are concerned about the effect of chemicals on their health and the environment. Pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs) are designed to track the quantities of chemicals that are released into the air, water or land, or that are transferred off-site for further management or disposal; they are a cornerstone in the effort to provide information to the public on the sources and handling of pollutants. Data on releases and transfers of chemicals are submitted by individua… more
Date: July 20, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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En balance: Emisiones y transferencias de contaminantes en América del Norte, 1998. Resumen

Description: El presente informe tiene por objeto ofrecer respuestas a esas y otras preguntas y, al tiempo, ser una fuente de información para que los gobiernos, las industrias y las comunidades identifiquen oportunidades para reducir la contaminación. Los análisis en que se basa usan los datos de 1995-1998 del Inventario de Emisiones de Tóxicos de EU (TRI, US Toxics Release Inventory) y del Inventario Nacional de Emisiones de Contaminantes de Canadá (NPRI, Canadian National Pollutant Release Inventory). En… more
Date: July 20, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Formulación de una metodología integral para evaluar los efectos económicos de las inundaciones en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México

Description: This variability leads to information gaps when prioritizing development investments for infrastructure renewal, institutional development, or community enhancements, among others. This paper provides an overview of the range of approaches used in the three countries and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. It then proposes a comprehensive, inclusive accounting methodology for costs related to floods, which has been developed in close collaboration with various stakeholders and domain exper… more
Date: July 20, 2021
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proyectos de la CCA en materia de pastizales. Evaluación de beneficios ambientales (2011–2015)

Description: The North American grasslands are the only shared, contiguous terrestrial ecoregion extending across the three countries. Between July 2011 and June 2015, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) invested C$990,000 in two 2-year projects focusing on grasslands conservation. The CEC conducted an assessment process to evaluate the impacts of this investment at two and four years post-project.
Date: July 16, 2019
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluación del impacto a largo plazo del trabajo de la CCA en favor de la conservación de la mariposa monarca (1996–2016)

Description: Since 1996, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation has been actively involved in the conservation of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), a symbol of trinational environmental cooperation between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Although interrupted for a few years, CEC efforts to conserve the species intensified after population declines were recorded at overwintering sites in Mexico in 2005 (Rendon-Salinas and Galindo-Leal 2005).
Date: July 16, 2019
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluación del impacto a largo plazo del Atlas ambiental de América del Norte y el Sistema de Monitoreo del Cambio en la Cobertura del Suelo de América del Norte (1996-2016)

Description: In 2018, the CEC commissioned a report to assess the long-term impact of the CEC’s North American Atlas and the North American Land Change Monitoring System (the NALCMS), together referred to as “the Atlas,” over the first twenty-year period from 1996 to 2016. This assessment shows that the Atlas’s foundational and thematic maps have helped visualize the continent’s shared environment and identify transboundary environmental issues, supporting research, analysis and environmental decision-makin… more
Date: July 16, 2019
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluación de los efectos a largo plazo del trabajo sobre manejo adecuado de desechos peligrosos (1996-2014)

Description: CEC’s work on hazardous waste management spanned 18 years and included the following initiatives: <ul> <li>Training and consolidating information-sharing among customs agencies regarding the illegal trade in environmentally regulated hazardous waste materials;</li> <li>Creating a series of comprehensive documents detailing the laws, regulations, trade patterns and enforcement experiences applicable to particular sectors;</li> <li>Developing technical guidelines and compiling best prac… more
Date: July 16, 2019
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluación del impacto a largo plazo de la iniciativa Registro de Emisiones y Transferencias de Contaminantes de América del Norte (1995-2015)

Description: The North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (NAPRTR) Initiative originates from a commitment of Canada, Mexico and the United States under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) to enhance the quality and comparability of PRTR data across the region, through improvements in methodologies for data gathering and management, electronic communications, and analyses, in order to 1) effectively track releases of industrial pollutants across North America, and… more
Date: July 16, 2019
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cuantificar la pérdida y el desperdicio de alimentos

Description: Recently, after quantifying FLW at one of its branches according to the practical guide from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), it found opportunities for savings of around P$330,000 (pesos) per year and to abate 40 tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Date: July 15, 2019
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fracturación hidráulica en Nuevo León: Expediente de hechos relativo a la petición SEM-18-003

Description: According to the Submitters, the Party is failing to effectively enforce Article 28 of the General Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection Act (Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente— LGEEPA) with respect to the obligation to file an environmental impact statement (EIS); LGEEPA Article 15, concerning the obligation to repair harm arising from work that affects the environment; LGEEPA Article 122, applicable to control of wastewater; LGEEPA Article 170, which au… more
Date: July 1, 2025
Creator: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat. Submission on Enforcement Matters Unit.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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