12 states oppose Bush's change to `toxic release inventory' plan

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12 states oppose Bush's change to `toxic release inventory' plan

By MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated Press Writer

January 13, 2006, 12:46 PM EST

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Attorneys general in 12 states on Friday said the Bush administration's plan
to change the annual Toxic Release Inventory would help polluters and hurt the public's right
to know about health risks from the legal release of toxic waste in their neighborhoods.

The state officials contend that raising some baseline reporting thresholds and changing
the annual release to every two years would have the greatest harm in low-income neighborhoods
were plants are often located.

"This EPA move appears to be yet another poorly considered notion to appease a few polluting
constituents at the expense of a valuable program," said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer,
the lead state official in the effort.

Attorneys general in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont and Wisconsin joined Spitzer.

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