Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Leading to healthier communities and economic prosperity through protecting Ontario’s air, land and water.
Climate change
- Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan
- Ontario's plan to address climate change
- Impacts of climate change
- Emissions Performance Standards
Environmental permissions
Air
- Air quality in Ontario
- Rules on air quality and pollution
Land and soil
- Waste management
- Illegal waste dumping
- Hazardous waste management: business and industry
- Brownfields and contaminated sites
- Excess soil
- Pesticide licences and permits
Conservation and parks
- Species at risk
- Ontario Parks and protected areas
- Conservation reserve management directions
- Provincial park management directions
- Explore Ontario Parks
Lakes and rivers
- Drinking water
- Source water protection
- Great Lakes and watersheds
- Eating Ontario Fish
- Maintaining wells on your property
Maps
- Access Environment
- Guide to Eating Ontario Fish
- Source Protection Information Atlas
- Find a Conservation reserve
- Other maps
Other business resources
- Environmental Bill of Rights
- Environmental Registry
- Search ministry open data
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
- Facebook
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- Contact form
- Tel : 416-325-4000
- Toll-free: 1-800-565-4923
- Fax: 416-314-6713
- Toll-free TTY : 1-855-515-2759
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
5 th Floor, 777 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario M7A 2J3
- Employee directory
- Regional and district offices
Minister, media and news
- Contact the Minister
- Media contacts
- Ministry 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
