DIOXIN RULE CHANGE MAY SET PRECEDENT FOR RISK DATA IN OTHER TRI REPORTS

EPA's plans to require risk-related data on dioxin releases, in addition to volume-based totals, should open the door to similar changes for other chemical compounds regulated under the agency's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), industry sources say. In a March 7 Federal Register notice, the agency proposed revising TRI rules by requiring that manufacturers report releases of substances in the dioxin category in terms of their toxicity, instead of just disclosing the total mass of the releases as a single group,...