Water Purifying Equipment Resources

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190 Companies to fill in gaps on 1100 Chemicals
On April 2, 1999, EPA announced that 190 companies have committed to filling gaps in basic health and safety information for 1100 high-production chemicals. This action is in response to the chemical right-to-know initiative launched by Vice President Gore on Earth Day 1998 that challenged the chemical industry to expand the public’s right-to-know about 2,800 high- production chemicals manufactured or imported in excess of one million pounds a year.

The goal of this program is to encourage industry to voluntarily make existing data available and to conduct tests where there are gaps in baseline information on the human health and environmental effects of the chemicals they manufacture or import. The information provided by participating companies will include information on acute toxicity, the effects of repeated exposures, reproductive and developmental toxicity, and environmental effects. A full list of the chemicals and additional information on both the commitments that have been made and the entire program can be found at http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/spnchems.htm .

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Data On Mercury Emissions To Be Collected

On 11/16/98 EPA announced that it will require most coal-fired electric generating plants to make publicly available for the first time ever information concerning mercury emissions coming from their smokestacks. EPA will begin collecting the emissions data Jan. 1, 1999, and start making it available to the public on the Internet early in the year 2000. This action is not a regulation and will not appear in the Federal Register; however, supporting information is accessible immediately at website: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg/t1fs.html.