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Blue Sky for TRI?

March 25, 2009

EPA's March 20, 2009, public release of the latest Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data may have marked the beginning of a new era for the embattled program.

The agency has already begun to implement rollback of Bush-era cutbacks on the amount of information companies have to report about threats to communities from toxic industrial chemical releases. Those reporting changes were mandated by Congress in a March 11, 2009, spending bill.

Explanatory materials to help reporters interpret the annual TRI data had been drastically diminished during the Bush administration. But this year's release was accompanied by a more extensive set of materials, including state-by-state analyses.

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