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What we do
- Protect Ontario’s air, land, water, species at risk and their habitats
- Tackle climate change
- Manage the province’s parks and conservation reserves
- Maintain strong environmental protections while creating jobs
- Use the best available science and research to develop and deliver policies, legislation, regulations, standards, programs and services
- Enforce compliance with environmental laws
- Work with partner ministries, other governments, Indigenous partners and organizations, industry, stakeholders and the public
- Monitor and report to track environmental progress
Contact us
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
5th Floor, 777 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario M7A 2J3
Minister, media and news
Agencies, boards, commissions and other
The ministry is affiliated with the following independent agencies and other entities:
Board-governed agencies
- Ontario Clean Water Agency — Operational Enterprise
- Walkerton Clean Water Centre — Operational Service
- Species Conservation Action Agency
Other entities (not provincial agencies)
- Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority
- Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation
- 19 Source Protection Committees
- Oak Ridges Moraine Foundation
Advisory agencies
- Ontario Parks Board of Directors (also known as Ontario Parks)
- Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario
- Council on Drinking Water Quality and Testing Standards
- Lake Simcoe Coordinating Committee
- Lake Simcoe Science Committee
- Species at Risk Program Advisory Committee
- Muskoka Watershed Advisory Group
Legislation
The ministry administers the following legislation:
- Adams Mine Lake Act, 2004
- Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018
- Capital Investment Plan Act, 1993
- Clean Water Act, 2006
- Conservation Authorities Act
- Endangered Species Act, 2007
- English and Wabigoon Rivers Remediation Funding Act, 2017
- Environmental Assessment Act
- Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993
- Environmental Protection Act
- Great Lakes Protection Act, 2015
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008
- Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Park Act, 2003
- Keeping Polystyrene out of Ontario’s Lakes and Rivers Act, 2021
- Ministry of the Environment Act
- Ministry of Natural Resources Act
- Municipal Water and Sewage Transfer Act, 1997
- Nutrient Management Act, 2002
- Ontario Water Resources Act
- Pesticides Act
- Provincial Day of Action on Litter Act, 2019
- Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act, 2006
- Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016
- Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002
- Waste Diversion Transition Act, 2016
- Water Opportunities Act, 2010
Updated: July 24, 2024
Published: June 21, 2016