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Article: Estimating Emissions of Dioxin and Dioxin-like Compounds.
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- Chemical Engineering
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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A recent EPA ruling impacts facilities using waste- and fossil-fuel-fired combustion devices
On October 29, 1999, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.) added seven chemicals and two categories of chemical compounds to the list of toxic chemicals that are subject to reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), Section 313 (which comprises the Toxics Release Inventory, or TRI). At that time, the Agency also lowered the reporting thresholds, and eliminated certain de minimis exemptions, for 18 chemicals and chemical categories that meet EPCRA 313 criteria for persistence and bioaccumulation (Table 1, ...