RE: CAFA Asthma Advocacy Data Book, October 2004 (Shendell DG and Roberts ER) included final 2002 data released June 2004; final 2003 data summaries to be released in 2005.
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EPA Issues Advance Data on Toxic Releases, State by State [for 2003]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2004 (ENS) – There are 1,500 facilities in California that emit toxics regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and this year, for the first time, the EPA is releasing information about those toxics to the public earlier than before - not just for California, but for facilities in all states.
This is information collected from corporations by the EPA under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program requires industrial facilities to publicly report quantities of toxic chemicals annually released into the air, water and land.
TRI gives Americans public information on chemical releases for their community, so that they can make informed decisions about protecting their environment. In the past, this data was received, quality checked, analyzed and released in the annual Toxics Release Inventory report.
Many stakeholders have requested that the agency share TRI data sooner and in the basic format received, without waiting for further analysis, the EPA says. In response to these stakeholder concerns, on November 23 the agency launched the first annual electronic release of facility-level TRI data, the Electronic-Facility Data Release (e-FDR).
The data is presented for each facility documented by the EPA, one reporting form for each chemical.
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The data can be searched by state or by company name.
The eFDR provides facility-by-facility reporting for reporting year 2003. Find it here: http://www.epa.gov/tri-efdr/
The traditional public Data Release, which includes more quality checks, national trends and analysis, is expected in spring 2005.
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