Toxic Release Inventory perspectives

EPA. 1989i. The Toxics Release Inventory A National Perspective, 1987. Washington, DC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Toxic Substances, Economics and Technology Division. 

The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and generalize the various pollution, health, and environmental problems especially specific to the chemical industry and to place in perspective government laws and regulations as well as industry efforts to control these problems. A brief survey of air and water pollution problems will be given, but these are characteristic of all industry and the topics are too vast to be covered adequately in this book. We will be more concerned with toxic chemical pollution and its control and will spend some time on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA, TOSCA) of 1976 and the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) list begun in 1988. 

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