Posted AT 5:19 PM EDT on 24/05/05
Canada not helping to clear the air
Canada accounts for 42 per cent of all lead air pollution in North America, a new study from the Commission for Environmental Co-operation said in an annual report.
Further, the study, which looked at data it received from nearly 25,000 facilities in both countries, said that although Canada has far fewer factories using lead and lead compounds than the United States, Canada pumped out 13 times more lead into the air on a per facility average basis.
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