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Tell Congress to Stop EPA's Rollback of Toxic Pollution Reporting

The EPA has received more than 120,000 comments against the TRI proposals. Below, find a small sampling of the most substantive comments that show widespread opposition to EPA's proposals that would reduce toxic chemical reporting.

MASS OPPOSITION: 122,368 say NO and only 33 say YES to EPA's TRI proposals (summary table). Full analysis coming soon...

Link to comments from Health Professionals and Scientists, State Agencies and Offices, Elected Officials, Organizations and Associations, and American Citizens who want to retain their right-to-know about pollution.

Health Professionals and Scientists

• Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., University of Buffalo

• Megan Schwarzman, Family Physician, San Francisco, California

State Agencies and Offices

• Arizona Department of Environmental Quality

• Attorney Generals from 12 States

• California State Controller

• California Department of Toxic Substances Control

• Connecticut Attorney General

• Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control

• Illinois Attorney General

• Iowa Attorney General

• Maine Department of Environmental Protection

• Massachusetts Attorney General

• Massachusetts Executive Office of the Environmental Affairs

• Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

• New Hampshire Attorney General

• New Jersey Attorney General

• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

• New Mexico Attorney General

• New York Attorney General

• New York Department of Environmental Conservation

• Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

• Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality

• Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

• Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry

• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (from Director Ayanna A. King)

• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (from Secretary Kathleen A. McGintee)

• South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

• Vermont Attorney General

• Washington Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program

• Washington Department of Ecology

• Wisconsin Attorney General

Elected Officials

• 63 Pennsylvania State and Local Elected Officials

• 16 Minnesotta State Legislators

• 3 Delaware Legislators

• City of Denver

• City of Philadelphia

• Hampden Community Council, Baltimore, Maryland

• Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners, Maimi, Florida

• Montgomery County Health Department, Norristown, PA

• U.S. Conference of Mayors

Organizations and Associations

• 233 organizations calling on Congress to stop EPA's Proposals

• 52 labor, community and environmental organizations from New Jersey

• American Lung Association

• American Public Health Association

• Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica

• Calvert Group, Ltd.

• Children's Environmental Health Network

• Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

• Lowell Center for Sustainable Production

• National Environmental Trust

• National Pollution Prevention Roundtable

• North American Hazardous Materials Management Association

• OMB Watch

• Socially Responsible Investment Coalition

• U.S. Conference of Mayors

American Citizens

• Phyllis L. Cairnes, Kingsport, Tennessee

• Edith Chase, Kent, Ohio

• Timothy Miller, Pleasanton, California

• Renae Patti, Elmwood Park, New Jersey

• Debora Pletcher, Dublin, California