June 4th, 2025
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Clean Air Day aims to increase public awareness of two key environmental priorities: clean air and climate change, as well as to encourage the public to take action in these sectors.
In the winter of 1998, representatives from five environmental NGO's met with the Minister of the Environment, Christine Stewart, to request that June be officially declared "clean air month" in Canada.
With formal Cabinet approval, Clean Air Day was finally declared as the Wednesday of Environment Week, and was officially launched on June 2, 1999. (Environment Week is the first week in June that includes June 5th, World Environment Day.)
