OMB Watch: Action Alert

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Toxics Release Inventory Resource Center

For nearly 20 years, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) has been an

essential tool in alerting emergency responders, researchers, workers,

public health officials, environmentalists, community residents, and

federal and state officials to the presence of toxic chemicals. The

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to undermine this

successful program.

 

The EPA plans to allow companies to: (1) release ten times the amount

of toxics before detailed reporting is required; (2) withhold

information on Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxins (PBTs), like lead and

mercury; and (3) report every other year, instead of annually.

 

Use the information and tools below to take action to save TRI.

http://www.ombwatch.org/tricenter/

 

NEW MATERIALS

 

Report - Dismantling the Public's Right to Know: EPA's Systematic

Weakening of the Toxics Release Inventory

 

TRI Sign-On Letter Opposing the EPA Changes (as of Jan. 6)

To add your organization to the letter email Clay Northouse.

 

OMB Watch Statement on EPA's plans to rollback TRI reporting

 

Listen to the December 1st Press Conference on TRI (MP3, 4.5 megs)

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