Pollution’s costs are large, growing, and poorly understood
Strong data demonstrating the costs of pollution is key to reducing them. The impacts are too great to allow the need for action to be obscured by weak data. The government is moving on carbon emissions because climate change is a clear and present threat. And because it has been well studied. Canadians should hope for nothing less with other pollutants.
In announcing Ottawa’s plans for a national carbon pricing system last month, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna rightly noted that the government was acting, in part, because “pollution has a very significant impact on our health.” She might well have added ...
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