Environmental Integrity Project, Earthworks, and others
October 24, 2012
127,000 Tons of Undisclosed Hazardous Emissions: Oil and Gas Would Join Other Industries, Including Coal, That Already Report to the Toxics Release Inventory; Federal Disclosure for O&G Not Yet Required Despite Surge in Fracking Chemical Pollution.
WASHINGTON, D.C.///October 24, 2012///The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), along with 16 other local, regional, and national organizations petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today to require the oil and gas extraction industry—including companies engaged in fracking—to report to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The oil and gas extraction industry has long used and released large amounts of TRI-listed toxic chemicals, and this has dramatically increased in the last decade with the rapid spread of horizontal hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”).
Today’s petition would finally make this information available for the first time to citizens, communities, and lawmakers. The full text of the petition is available online at: http://www.earthworksaction.org/library/detail/petition_to_add_oil_gas_extraction_to_TRI.
The rest of the press release is available HERE.
For an explanation of of this loophole and how, compared to the other 6 loopholes the fracking industry enjoys, this will be the easiest to remove, see: Six out of Seven Exemptions Ain’t Bad.
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This is good news. I hope that it gets the feds off their duffs and they(the feds) get to work to help us peasants.