Environmental Matters in the Commonwealth of Kentucky

U.S. EPA announced that Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database for 2006 is now available on line. The TRI database contains information about chemical releases at facilities across the country, including Kentucky. TRI tracks and contains detailed information on releases of nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories from about 23,000 industrial and federal facilities. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 established the TRI program. In 1990, The Pollution Prevention Act expanded the program by including data on toxic chemicals released, as well as treated, recycled, and burned for energy recovery. The link to the TRI database is: http://epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri06/index.htm