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What’s New
The Bush administration has received more than 112,000 public comments on its proposal to cut the amount of information the public gets about pollution. The vast majority of these comments oppose the proposal, and are in favor of protecting the public’s right-to-know.
How You Can Help
Please call your senators and urge them to support legislation passed in the House of Representatives that would block the Bush administration from restricting the public’s right to know about toxic pollution in our communities.
Overview
Toxic chemicals are in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the products we buy. Yet manufacturers of the thousands of chemicals on the market aren't required to fully test chemicals for health effects or to fully disclose toxics used in workplaces and communities, placed in products, and released to our environment.
Successful federal and state right-to-know laws not only empower citizens and communities to protect themselves, but give industries a public incentive to clean up their act, and have resulted in dramatic reductions in toxic pollution and toxic chemical use.
U.S. PIRG is working to defend the Toxics Release Inventory Program, which is the program that provides basic right-to-know information about toxic pollution. The Bush Administration has proposed changes that would slash this information and hide pollution from the public. More.
