EPA's Toxics Release Inventory doesn't offer full picture of pollution. The Center for Public Integrity. Author Corbin Hiar.
http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/49-49/9371-epas-database-doesnt-list-all-hazardous-chemical-releases
[Excerpted] "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled its analysis of the 2010
Toxics Release Inventory....But, as the EPA acknowledged, the database provides only a snapshot of the
pollution produced by American industry.
'Users of TRI data should be aware
that…it does not cover all toxic chemicals or all sectors of the U.S. economy,”
the analysis
warned. 'Furthermore, the quantities of chemicals reported to TRI are
self-reported by facilities and are often estimates....'"
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