Follow up to February 21, 2008 posting EPA Releases Selected Toxics Release Inventory Data, this news release: “Information on the 2006 reporting year is now available as part of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database. Today marks the earliest release of the data in the 20-year history of the program. Improvements in electronic reporting and data processing have made this possible. Nation-wide chemical releases into the environment are down by two percent from 2005…The TRI is an on-line electronic database, housing information about chemical releases at facilities across the country. TRI tracks and contains detailed information on releases of nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories from about 23,000 industrial and federal facilities. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 established the TRI program. In 1990, The Pollution Prevention Act expanded the program by including data on toxic chemicals released, as well as treated, recycled, and burned for energy recovery.”

• Link to 2006 TRI Colorado Fact Sheet
• Link to 2006 TRI Montana Fact Sheet
• Link to 2006 TRI North Dakota Fact Sheet
• Link to 2006 TRI South Dakota Fact Sheet
• Link to 2006 TRI Utah Fact Sheet
• Link to 2006 TRI Wyoming Fact Sheet
• See also TRI Reports for past years