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Taking Stock 2003 is the tenth in the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Taking Stock series on sources, releases and transfers of industrial pollutants in North America. In this report, you can find:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
- which industrial sector released the largest amount of pollutants;
- which chemicals are released in the largest amounts;
- how releases and transfers of chemicals from facilities in your community rank in North America;
- the types of chemical releases and amounts shipped across national boundaries for disposal, treatment,energy recovery or recycling; and
- whether chemical releases and transfers are increasing or decreasing over time.
At the Taking Stock Online web page, you can frame customized data enquiries and get answers about releases and transfers of chemicals in North America.
In 2005, Mexico issued a list of 104 chemicals and a format for mandating reporting to begin with the 2004 reporting year. The reported data will be released publicly in 2006 and incorporated into the eleventh edition of Taking Stock due for release in July 2007.
