Overview
Every year, factories and manufacturers release thousands of tons of
dangerous pollutants, toxic metals, and poisonous fumes into our air,
water and urban centers.
Despite overwhelming public opposition, in December 2006 the
Bush administration’s EPA issued a rule exempting more than 3,500 facilities
from reporting their pollution under the Toxic Release Inventory program. The rule also allows polluters to keep the
public in the dark about releases of up to 500 pounds of persistent
bioaccumulative toxins. The Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act would reverse these
rollbacks and restore the public’s access to information about the toxic
pollution released into communities.
We need to be doing more, not less, to monitor toxic
pollution. That’s why we’re standing with the public against powerful special
interests to make sure we know what polluters are dumping into our communities.
