EPA Chief Administrator Lisa Jackson declared that preventing e-waste and its irresponsible management was one of the agency's top six newly announced global priorities. The other five priorities were reducing carbon emissions, improving air quality, improving water quality, reducing toxics exposures and building stronger institutional frameworks. Her comments came at the public reception to launch the 17th Session of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, a body created with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ) to mitigate environmental impacts of trade between Canada, Mexico and the United States.
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