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SEATTLE (AP) -- Paint companies, shipyards and other industrial companies in Seattle released 126,000 pounds of pollution in 2004, an improvement over the previous year and a reason supporters of the tracking program are arguing against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent proposal to scale it back.
This is an "astonishingly successful program," Clark Williams- Derry, research director for Northwest Environment Watch, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer after the EPA released new data this week.See the full content of this document
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Pollution Down in Seattle, Up Elsewhere
The tracking program, called the Toxics Release Inventory, requires large-volume, industrial polluters to report their emissions of cancer-causi...
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