RULING OPENS DOOR TO NEW TRI EXEMPTIONS FOR OZONE-FORMING CHEMICALS

May 13, 2005
A federal appellate ruling backing a chemical industry petition to exempt a widely used solvent from reporting under EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) could help industry seek similar exemptions for a host of other chemicals the agency has regulated because they become toxic after release. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled May 10 that the solvent Methyl Etheyl Ketone (MEK) is not a "toxic" chemical as defined under the Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know...


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