Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422399699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Environmental Right-To-Know: EPA’s Recent Rule Could Reduce Availability of Toxic Chemical Information Used to Assess Environmental Justice
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422399699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Environmental Right-to-know
Author: John B. StephensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this testimony, GAO discusses (1) EPA's response to GAO's environmental justice recommendations, (2) the extent to which EPA followed internal guidelines when developing the TRI rule and (3) the impact of the rule on communities and facilities...
The Toxic Substances Control Act
Author: Environmental Justice and the Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous MaterialsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Toxic Chemical Releases
Author: John B. StephensonPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437901980
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Fed. law requires certain facilities that manufacture, process, or use any of 581 toxic chemicals to report annually to EPA and their state on the amount of those chemicals released into the air, water, or soil. It also requires EPA to make this info. publicly available. Facilities must either: submit a detailed TRI Form R for each designated chemical used in excess of certain thresholds; or file a simpler Form A certifying that they need not do so. To reduce co. burden, EPA issued a Dec. 2006 rule to expand Form A eligibility for certain facilities and chemicals. This report analyzed: (1) how EPA and others use TRI data; (2) whether EPA followed internal guidelines in developing its rule; and (3) the rule¿s impact on info. avail. to the public. Charts and tables.
Coming Clean
Author: Michael E. KraftPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262014955
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An investigation into the policy effects of requiring firms to disclose information about their environmental performance. Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process of information disclosure as a policy strategy for environmental protection. This process, which requires that firms disclose information about their environmental performance, is part of an approach to environmental protection that eschews the conventional command-and-control regulatory apparatus, which sometimes leads government and industry to focus on meeting only minimal standards. The authors of Coming Clean examine the effectiveness of information disclosure in achieving actual improvements in corporate environmental performance by analyzing data from the federal government's Toxics Release Inventory, or TRI, and drawing on an original set of survey data from corporations and federal, state, and local officials, among other sources. The authors find that TRI—probably the best-known example of information disclosure—has had a substantial effect over time on the environmental performance of industry. But, drawing on case studies from across the nation, they show that the improvement is not uniform: some facilities have been leaders while others have been laggards. The authors argue that information disclosure has an important role to play in environmental policy—but only as part of an integrated set of policy tools that includes conventional regulation.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Author: David C. TrimblePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437982425
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment by implementing and enforcing the laws intended to improve the quality of the nation's air, water, and lands. EPA's policies and programs affect virtually all segments of the economy, society, and government. Auditors have identified several significant and persistent challenges across a range of EPA programs and activities and has proposed corrective actions to enable the agency to more effectively accomplish its mission. Based on this work, this testimony highlights some of the major management challenges facing EPA today, the agency's efforts to address them, and the work that remains to be done. Includes recommendations. Illustrations. This is a print on demand report.
Environmental Protection Agency
Author: John B. StephensonPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437915752
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The EPA¿s mission is to protect human health and the environment by implementing and enforcing environmental laws intended to improve the quality of the nation¿s air and water and to protect its land. EPA's policies and programs affect virtually all segments of the economy, society, and gov¿t. This report identifies challenges at EPA that hinder its ability to implement its programs effectively, including: (1) improving agencywide mgmt.; (2) transforming EPA's processes for assessing and controlling toxic chemicals; (3) improving implementation of the Clean Air Act; (4) reducing pollution in the nation's waters, (5) speeding the pace of cleanup at Superfund and other hazardous waste sites; and (6) addressing emerging climate change issues. Illus.
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2012
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure
Author: Dirk BüngerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783642227578
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release Inventory’s data which creates an incentive for firms to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public access to environmental information constitutes a core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. Here, in essence, two facets arise. First, with regard to the collection, it is disputed whether such information, which may comprise confidential commercial and industrial information in the EU as well as trade secrets in the US, can be protected under fundamental and constitutional property rights respectively. Second, in the context of dissemination and utilisation, it is arguable whether the information indeed impacts polluters and produces an outcome that secures a certain level of environmental protection. The author responds to the first issue by taking the EU and US jurisdictions into account and strives to analyse how this novel form of Internet disclosure liberates market mechanisms in the quest for effective and efficient emission reductions.