EPA PLANS EASED RIGHT-TO-KNOW REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR TOXINS

EPA will propose loosening the chemical reporting requirements for some substances under a right-to-know law intended to give communities information about the hazardous chemicals used and stored at local chemical plants. The move would reverse a Clinton-administration rejection of an industry petition to raise the reporting threshold for a widely used pesticide, with the agency now promising to develop a new method for setting reporting requirements based on relaxed assumptions about toxic releases. EPA will develop a proposed rule in...