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| 3/22/2007 | |
| Industries across the United States pump billions of pounds of toxic chemicals into our air, land, and water each year, many of which can cause cancer and other severe health effects. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program provides Americans with the best information about toxic chemicals released in their communities. | |
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| 2/12/2004 | |
| Superfund is the nation's preeminent law designed to make polluters pay to clean up the nation's worst toxic waste sites. Superfund makes polluters pay to clean up contaminated sites for which they are responsible and also assesses "polluter pays fees" that fill a trust fund intended to clean up abandoned toxic waste sites. In 1995, Superfund’s polluter pays fees expired. | |
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| 12/12/2005 | |
| Since 1987, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program has been the nation’s premiere pollution disclosure program. By requiring companies to disclose the pollution they release to our air, water, and land, transfer off site, or dispose in a waste dump, the TRI program has ensured the public’s right-to-know about toxic pollution in communities. | |
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