Personal Injury Law

EPA To Make Cutbacks In Requirements For Industry's Toxin Reports

By Greg Webb

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rushed to make cutbacks on the requirements for companies to disclose their release of toxins annually. The EPA expedited these cutbacks after being pressured by the White House Office of Monetary Budget to meet their commitment to reduce the amount of paperwork to industries by 2006. With these changes, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated industry will file 22,000 fewer reports annually, a twenty five percent decline, which will lead to the public losing their powerful monitoring tool due to not having enough information about industry emissions. With the new requirements, more than 3,500 facilities will no longer have to disclose detailed information about their emitted chemicals.

Full post as published by Charlottesville Personal Injury Lawyer on December 31, 2007 (boomark / email).