Overview

Every year, factories and manufacturers release thousands of tons of dangerous pollutants, toxic metals, and poisonous fumes into our air, water and urban centers.

In 1987 Congress created the Toxic Release Inventory to counter this problem. The “TRI” program mandates full disclosure when companies release toxics into our air, land, and water, as well as report when toxic waste is treated, burned, recycled, or disposed of.

Now, however, the Bush Administration has caved to powerful interests in the chemical industry who want to strip us of our right to know when companies pollute our neighborhoods by weakening the TRI regulations. TexPIRG is working to return the Toxics Release Inventory Program in its former form. We need to be doing more, not less, to monitor toxic pollution. That’s why we’re standing with the public against powerful special interests to make sure we know what polluters are dumping into our communities.