Wastes Great, Less Filing

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EPA proposes fewer toxics reporting requirements for industrial facilities

 

Industrial plants would report their chemical releases every other year instead

of annually under a policy change proposed by the U.S. EPA. The agency also

indicated it wants to raise the threshold for reporting the release of certain

chemicals from 500 to 5,000 pounds. Both are major changes to the Toxics Release

Inventory, an almost two-decades-old data-gathering and reporting program

created under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. EPA claims

the weakened rules will help the agency improve the " quality, clarity,

usefulness, and accessibility " of the information it supplies to the public. But

Sean Moulton of non-profit watchdog OMB Watch says the changes would " gut the

program. " An environmental manager at a Louisville, Ky., chemical plant

estimates that reduced reporting will save him just 16 hours of work a year.

 

 

straight to the source: The Courier-Journal, James Bruggers, 23 Sep 2005

 

 

straight to the source: The Boston Globe, Associated Press, John Heilprin, 22

Sep 2005

 

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do

something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the

something that I can do.

[Guest guest]

must get new water filter..

 

 

 

, fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:

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> EPA proposes fewer toxics reporting requirements for industrial

facilities

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[Guest guest]

Good idea - we've filtered our water for about ten years.

 

Jo

 

 

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" Anouk Sickler " <zurumato

 

Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:06 AM

Re: Wastes Great, Less Filing

 

 

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> , fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:

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> > EPA proposes fewer toxics reporting requirements for industrial

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