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Public Meetings on Reassessment of PCB Use Authorizations
EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to potential reassessment of PCB use authorization under the Toxic Substance Control Act. Public comments are due on July 6; EPA will also be holding public meetings. Learn more here…
EPA Proposes Adding 16 Chemicals to the TRI Chemical List
On April 6, 2010, EPA took another important step toward providing communities with additional information about toxic chemicals being released to the environment.
EPA is Providing Communities with Additional Information about the Release of Hydrogen Sulfide into the Environment
The Agency is announcing that it is considering lifting the 1994 Administrative Stay of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reporting requirements for hydrogen sulfide. EPA is now presenting its rationale for why the Stay should be lifted, based on an updated evaluation that includes new information on human health and environmental effects of hydrogen sulfide. Learn more here...
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California's Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families - Grist Magazine
California's Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families
Grist Magazine
A 2007 study [PDF] of California's Bay Area found that more than half of Latinos live within one or two miles of a Toxics Release Inventory facility tracked ...
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Texas Coal Plant's 50000 Air Pollution Violations Lead to Legal Challenge - PressZoom (press release)
Texas Coal Plant's 50000 Air Pollution Violations Lead to Legal Challenge
PressZoom (press release)
... pollution among all US coal plants, emitting 1764 pounds in 2008, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxics Release Inventory. ...
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California's Proposition 23 Is Bad News for Latino Families - American Progress Action Fund
American Progress Action Fund
California's Proposition 23 Is Bad News for Latino Families
American Progress Action Fund
A 2007 study of California's Bay Area found that more than half of Latinos live within one or two miles of a Toxics Release Inventory facility tracked by ...
26 Groups Support EPA Right-to-Know Policy for Chemical Hazards - EP Magazine
26 Groups Support EPA Right-to-Know Policy for Chemical Hazards
EP Magazine
The groups' filing comes as Congress considers legislation that would overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the 1976 law that EPA, health, ...
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EPA Takes Action on Industrial Detergents - American Drycleaner
EPA Takes Action on Industrial Detergents
American Drycleaner
Initiate rulemaking to add NP and NPEs to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which would require facilities to report releases of the chemicals to the ...
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EPA Takes Action on Gender-Bending Chemical - Los Angeles Chronicle
EPA Takes Action on Gender-Bending Chemical
Los Angeles Chronicle
... under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Future actions would add NPEs to the Toxics Release Inventory and encourage the use of safer substitutes. ...
Skeptics doubt Sandusky's air is as dangerous as study claims - Port Huron Times Herald
Skeptics doubt Sandusky's air is as dangerous as study claims
Port Huron Times Herald
"The Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory is a good start, but it's not perfect. We do the best we can." What University of Michigan ...
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EPA Takes Aim at Toxics in Dyes, Flame Retardants, Detergents - Environment News Service
Environmental Leader
EPA Takes Aim at Toxics in Dyes, Flame Retardants, Detergents
Environment News Service
For HBCD and benzidine dyes, the agency could impose new requirements for reporting to its Toxic Release Inventory and could potentially ban or limit the ...
EPA to Take Action on Chemicals Used in Dyes, Flame Retardants, Industrial ...Environmental Leader
ENVIRONMENT: EPA Says New Rules Coming for Chemicals in Dyes, DetergentsCenter for Public Integrity (blog)
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Study: Latinos most likely to live near toxic materials - Press-Enterprise
Study: Latinos most likely to live near toxic materials
Press-Enterprise
It relied on an EPA inventory of emissions of toxics to the air and of disposal above and below ground and in waterways. John Hipp, lead author of the study ...
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Water contaminant to be studied, regulated by EPA - Water World
Water contaminant to be studied, regulated by EPA
Water World
... under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Future actions would add NPEs to the Toxics Release Inventory and encourage the use of safer substitutes. ...
ENVIRONMENT: EPA Says New Rules Coming for Chemicals in Dyes, DetergentsCenter for Public Integrity (blog)
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EPA Adopts Strong Protections Against Air Pollution from Cement Kilns - Media Newswire (press release)
EPA Adopts Strong Protections Against Air Pollution from Cement Kilns
Media Newswire (press release)
The kiln reported emitting a staggering 587 pounds of mercury pollution in 2008 to the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory, making it the nation's 4th worst ...
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Incomplete reporting still reveals mining companies' toxic threat - Rossland Telegraph
Incomplete reporting still reveals mining companies' toxic threat
Rossland Telegraph
Data released late last week to Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) reveals for the first time some of the pollutants released by mines to ...
Incomplete Reporting Still Reveals Mining Companies' Toxic Threat - Common Dreams (press release)
Incomplete Reporting Still Reveals Mining Companies' Toxic Threat
Common Dreams (press release)
Data released late last week through Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) reveals for the first time some of the pollutants released by ...
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Green briefs - Birmingham Weekly
Green briefs
Birmingham Weekly
Available at www.epa.gov/, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) contains information on nearly 650 chemicals reported to the EPA by more than 21000 industrial ...
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EPA seeks crowdsourcing with early release of toxics report data - GCN.com
EPA seeks crowdsourcing with early release of toxics report data
GCN.com
In this case, the EPA hopes the public will analyze the data in the preliminary Toxics Release Inventory dataset that includes more than 80 percent of the ...
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EPA posts toxic data early to encourage crowdsourcing - Nextgov
EPA posts toxic data early to encourage crowdsourcing
Nextgov
The agency on July 28 published on its Toxics Release Inventory website raw data specifying the amount of toxic chemicals that individual private and ...
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EPA Pushing Pollution Data Out to Public with New Tools, Earliest TRI Release Ever - OMB Watch
EPA Pushing Pollution Data Out to Public with New Tools, Earliest TRI Release Ever
OMB Watch
... released the preliminary 2009 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data, the earliest data release in the history of the program. The TRI program tracks toxic ...
Latest Industrial and Toxics Release Data Available NowEP Magazine
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EPA releases preliminary TRI data for 2009 - AgraNet (subscription)
EPA releases preliminary TRI data for 2009
AgraNet (subscription)
EPA this week released preliminary, facility-level data on releases and transfers of toxic chemical in 2009 as reported under the Toxics Release Inventory ...
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EWG's Ken Cook Testifies On House Proposal to Reform Chemicals Law - Environmental Working Group
EWG's Ken Cook Testifies On House Proposal to Reform Chemicals Law
Environmental Working Group
The public inventory and online database requirements promote transparency and accountability. Most Americans would probably be shocked that these data ...
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Environment: Updated Data Now Available from EPA: Toxic Release Inventory 2009 - ResourceShelf (blog)
Environment: Updated Data Now Available from EPA: Toxic Release Inventory 2009
ResourceShelf (blog)
Last year, in the interest of promoting transparency and collaboration, EPA took the unprecedented step of releasing toxic chemical data to the public in ...
EPA releases preliminary TRI data for 2009AgraNet (subscription)
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