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07.03 Notice for Extension of Unemployment Insurance Benefits 06.13 Students in Photo Camp Document the Chesapeake's Beauty, Fragility Travel
06.18 A Cost-Saving Way to Travel: Rent a House Books, Arts & Education
06.18 Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" (Part II) 06.16 Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" (Part I) Letters
Ref. : Letters to the editor Open Letters:
06.30 An Open Letter to Barack Obama Health & Environment
06.19 Big Bad Boom 06.13 Going Green Requires National Commitment Media Watching
07.03 Press distorts Clark’s comments 06.30 Iran-Contra's 'Lost Chapter' 06.27 Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media (Part II) 06.25 Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media (Part I) 06.20 Remembering Russert 06.19 Manufacturing Difference Between McCain and Bush 06.18 Killing the News in Iraq: Justifying the Unjustifiable 06.16 The Greatest Story Never Told 06.13 BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias 06.12 McCain Makes Stuff Up 06.11 WPost's Enduring Bush Cover-up US Politics, Policy & Culture
07.07 Is Barack Obama Patriotic? Is Any Politician? 07.07 Obama's FISA Statement is a Mess (Just like his Stand on Faith-based Programs) 07.07 Campaign Notes: Of Flip-Flops and Fly-Bys 07.07 Supreme Court, Inc.: Supremely Pro-Business 07.03 The Real Meaning of the Fourth of July 07.03 Three Amigos: Bush, McCain, Obama Draw a Blood-Red Line on Iran 07.02 Rep. Ron Paul Assails Congress's "Virtual Iran War Resolution 07.02 How Ignorant Are We? 06.28 Primary Season Over, Barack Channels Hillary 06.27 Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Bill to Fund Iraq War Until Mid-2009 06.27 Defending the President as Tyrant 06.25 Critical Malfunction: Misreading Gore Vidal 06.23 Campaign Finance Reform Has Failed 06.23 Thinking About Flip-Flops 06.23 Heat Waves: Burning Off the Fog of the FISA Fiasco 06.23 Alarm over 'Unfair' Campaign Money 06.23 The Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo and Murdoch's Wall Street Journal 06.20 Keeping America Safe from Child "Terrorists" 06.20 SuperCorridor Defeat? Don't Bet On It 06.19 Habeas Corpus Barely Saved 06.18 Mad Men: Pathology, Pretense and Power 06.16 High Water Everywhere: Court Ruling Won't Stem the Terror War Flood 06.16 Chronicle of a Craze Foretold: A History of Hope and Hype 06.13 The Republic on a Knife's Edge 06.12 Thinking About ''Term'' Life Insurance 06.12 Garrisoning the Global Gas Station 06.10 Sex Crime: A New 'Surge' in the War Against Women US High Crimes & Misdemeanors
07.08 Buchanan, MacDonogh, Pilger Books Explode Illusion Of American Exceptionalism 07.07 Bush-Cheney Crony Got Iraq Oil Deal 07.07 Keeping Count (When Ours Goes Down, Theirs Goes Up) 07.02 Iraq Oil Deals Fulfill Cheney's Goals 07.02 Bush's 'Wonderland' Logic 06.30 Operation Horse's Head: U.S. Raid Sends Message on Iraq "Agreement" 06.30 Invisible Hand: Washington Role in Iraq Oil Deal Revealed 06.27 It Was Oil, All Along 06.27 Big Dog, Little Tail: The American Elite Resolves on War With Iran 06.26 A Totally Lawless Regime 06.23 Top Dems Hand Bush Key Victories 06.23 Democrats Legalize Bush's Crimes 06.20 Torturegate: Truth, But No Consequences 06.20 Bomb Iran? What's to Stop Us? 06.17 Congress To Probe Bush, Cheney's Role In Plame-Gate 06.13 Written on the Body: The Reality of War 06.18 Horses, not Zebras 06.12 Trouble at the Pentagon 06.12 Jail Time for Tenet? 06.11 Exposing Bush Administration Corruption 06.10 Rep. Kucinich Files 35 Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush Economics & Business
07.08 Paul Krugman and Blindness About the War and the Economy 07.07 Thinking About Turnarounds 06.30 Thinking about Dependence 06.26 Health-Care Crisis Endangers Economy 06.17 Thinking About Installments International
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State News:Md. Attorney General Joins Other State AGs in Backing Public's Right to Know About Toxic Chemicals
"The Toxics Release Inventory puts chemical release information in the hands of the public and allows communities to engage in an educated dialogue with their industrial neighbors, and this kind of communication is beneficial to us all," said Curran in a prepared statement to the press. After the 1984 deadly release of toxic chemicals at the Union Carbide facility in Bhopal, India, Congress responded by establishing the Toxics Release Inventory. TRI is a federal computerized database that provides information on the type and quantity of toxic chemicals released into the air, water and soil. The bill was signed into law by President Reagan and data has been collected and made available to the public since 1987. Industrial facilities are required to report information to the EPA annually, which is then compiled into a public report. Disclosure of public information about toxic releases has brought about significant reductions in the release of toxic chemicals across the nation. For example, the Boeing Company reduced its toxic chemical releases by more than 82 percent since 1991; Monsanto reduced its toxic air emissions by more than 90 percent between 1988 and 1992. The Eastman Chemical Company of Tennessee has reduced its releases of TRI chemicals by 83 percent since 1988. The EPA, however, is now proposing changes that would, according to the state attorneys general, significantly weaken the TRI in the following ways:
Other participating attorneys general who are joining in the protest to the EPA are: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Iowa Attorney General Thomas J. Miller, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte, New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey, New Mexico Attorney General Patricia A. Madrid, Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell, Wisconsin Attorney General Peggy A. Lautenschlager. For more information, visit the Maryland Attorney General's website. Copyright © 2006 The Baltimore Chronicle.
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