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Our environmental protection laws require industries to report extensive pollution and safety information, yet there is no "one-stop-shopping" resource for a complete pollution profile of a company, an industry, or a geographic area.
Integrating disparate databases and collecting more complete information will help communities, industry, and government protect our health and environment. Learn about innovative efforts to better integrate government-held environmental information.
Integrating Environmental Information
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Integrating Environmental Information
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Our Right-to-Know: Environmental Compliance
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created Enforcement and Compliance History On-line (ECHO) to provide a readily accessible on-line public inventory of companies' compliance with environmental laws. For the first time, people can find historical compliance profiles with respect to clean air, clean water and hazardous waste laws for some 800,000 facilities.
| Fact Sheet - August 15, 2003 |
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Big Buddy Government
By withholding information from the public, this administration implies that we should trust our government like we trust our best buddy. But do you trust government to protect your health without public accountability and oversight?
| Commentary - October 12, 2004 |
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Secrecy Won’t Protect Us
This commentary makes the case that new secrecy laws won't protect us and that the Bush administration should improve communities' right-to-know, not undermine it.
| Commentary - August 30, 2004 |
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