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Nothing is more vital to a healthy life than clean air and clean water. But right now our air and water are threatened by laws that govern our international trade practices. The Bush administration is about to negotiate new trade rules that could make it even harder to protect the environment. Leaders from North and South America plan to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) throughout the Western Hemisphere. This Super-NAFTA trade deal, called the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), could have a severe impact on our health and environment at home and throughout the Americas. It could expose more of our health and environmental laws to attack as trade barriers encourage destructive mining and logging in some of our hemisphere's most precious wild areas. Global trade rules have already been used to undermine protections for wildlife, food safety, and the environment.
Factsheet: New Rules on Services Threaten our Air, Water, and Land (PDF) Factsheet: New Pro-Corportate Rules Threaten our Environment & Health (PDF) Learn More: NAFTA Expansion: The FTAA Fair Trade Resources on the Web Build a Local Fair Trade Campaign Global Trade's Anti-Environmental Record Five Environmental Reasons to Oppose the FTAA, by the Canadian Alliance on Trade and Environment and the Sierra Club of Canada (pdf file, 183 KB). Photo licensed to Sierra Club; used with permission. Up to Top |
