Industrial pollution in North America rose slightly between 1995 and 1997,
says the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an organisation created as
part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Tom Natan of the
National Environmental Trust in Washington DC, who serves on the commission’s
citizens’ advisory group, says the 1.2 per cent increase doesn’t seem very
large, but the situation may be worse because the commission currently has no
data from Mexico. “It’s difficult to say what’s going on,” he says.
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