Twelve states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, sued the
Environmental Protection Agency yesterday for weakening regulations
that for two decades have required businesses and industries to report
the toxic chemicals they use, store and release.
The suit, filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, asks the
court to reverse the agency's move and so restore all the chemical
reporting requirements that were previously part of its Toxics Release
Inventory program, or T.R.I.
Community groups across the country have used the program to track the
amounts of hazardous chemicals in local neighborhoods. Under the
program, companies must provide information about the types of toxic
chemicals stored at plants and factories in each state, as well as the
quantities discharged from each plant.
Besides the states of the New York tristate area, the plaintiffs are
Arizona, California, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Vermont...
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EPA Is Sued By 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals
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By Anthony DePalma
The New York Times, November 29, 2007
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