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NTC EARTH DAY 1997: EPA EXPANDS RIGHT-TO-KNOW DATA TO INCLUDE MORE INDUSTRIES, MORE INFORMATION

Release Date: 04/22/97
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Delivering on President Clinton's 1995 commitment to expand industry reporting of community right-to-know information, EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner today is signing a final rule, proposed in June 1996, that -- for the first time ever -- increases by about 30 percent the number of industrial facilities required to make public the levels of toxic chemicals they release into the air, water and land in communities across America under the community right-to-know program. The new Clinton Administration requirement calls for approximately 6,100 new facilities -- in seven industrial sectors -- to begin reporting on toxic releases in local communities, so that a total of over 31,000 facilities will now report toxic emissions to the public, community by community, providing new information on local pollution to tens of millions of Americans.
Browner said, "Today's announcement by the President is a huge step for the American people's right to know what is in the air they breathe, the water they drink and the land on which they live. By strengthening and expanding the Toxics Release Inventory, the President has provided American families with a critical tool for making their neighborhoods cleaner, safer and healthier in the 21st Century."

Attached for your information is a fact sheet on the new right-to-know reporting requirements, and an Earth Day list of Clinton Administration accomplishments in environmental and public health protection.

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FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1997




EARTH DAY 1997:
EPA EXPANDS RIGHT-TO-KNOW DATA TO INCLUDE MORE INDUSTRIES,
MORE INFORMATION


Delivering on President Clinton’s 1995 commitment to expand industry reporting of community right-to-know information, EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner today is signing a final rule, proposed in June 1996, that -- for the first time ever -- increases by about 30 percent the number of industrial facilities required to make public the levels of toxic chemicals they release into the air, water and land in communities across America under the community right-to-know program. The new Clinton Administration requirement calls for approximately 6,100 new facilities -- in seven industrial sectors -- to begin reporting on toxic releases in local communities, so that a total of over 31,000 facilities will now report toxic emissions to the public, community by community, providing new information on local pollution to tens of millions of Americans.
Browner said, “Today’s announcement by the President is a huge step for the American people’s right to know what is in the air they breathe, the water they drink and the land on which they live. By strengthening and expanding the Toxics Release Inventory, the President has provided American families with a critical tool for making their neighborhoods cleaner, safer and healthier in the 21st Century.”

Attached for your information is a fact sheet on the new right-to-know reporting requirements, and an Earth Day list of Clinton Administration accomplishments in environmental and public health protection. For more information, call Denise Kearns at 202-260-4376.

John Kasper, Director
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