AB 2490: Protecting California from Bush rollbacks (Toxics release inventory)

The federal Toxics Release Inventory is the nation’s premier community right-to-know law about toxics released into the environment. It requires industrial facilities to report the amount of 650 hazardous chemicals they release and dispose of every year. The Bush Administration, through the US EPA, proposed to increase by ten-fold the minimum amount of chemicals a plant must release before it submits information and to require reporting only every other year. AB 2490 (Ruskin) would have required the state, in the event that the Bush rollback had been implemented, to continue to collect toxics release information as required before the rollback.