Posts Categorized: TRI

Revisiting The Smokestack Effect

Posted by & filed under air toxics, Citizen's Right-to-know, environmental justice, EPA NATA, ESCO, Health Benchmarks, hotspots, industrial sanctuary, manganese, Toxic Hot Spots, TRI, USA Today.

In March 2009, I stumbled across a report on the internet published by USA Today called the Smokestack Effect.  It was a ground breaking study that cross-referenced the federal Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data with school sitings, ranking the schools at greatest risk of cancer and non-cancer health effects due to air toxic exposures.  The… Read more »

What is in our air?

Posted by & filed under air toxics, Citizen's Right-to-know, DEQ, Health Benchmarks, hotspots, industrial sanctuary, manganese, Title V air permit, Toxic Hot Spots, transparency, TRI, urban growth boundry.

Every day driving my daughters to school I pass eastbound over the Fremont Bridge. During many of these days as we are just about to exit onto Kerby, we have to pass through a dense dark gray “fog” created by the air emissions of a regulated polluter just below the bridge.  Some days the fog… Read more »

Right to Know

Posted by & filed under Bhopal India, Chromium VI, Citizen's Right-to-know, DEQ Precautionary Principle, ESCO, TRI, USA Today.

“Every American has the right to know the chemicals to which they may be exposed in their daily living. Right-to-know laws provide information about possible chemical exposures.” EPA website: Protect the Environment: Learn about your right to know. A recent NW Examiner article documenting the contradictions and discrepencies in the emissions reports from ESCO Corp…. Read more »