Two right-wing, industry-backed groups filed a data quality petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the agency's labeling of certain chemicals as "likely human carcinogens." Specifically, the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) and the American Council on Health and Science (ACHS) want EPA to eliminate statements in its Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment that indicate that a substance may properly be labeled as "likely to be carcinogenic to humans" based solely or primarily on the results of animal studies. Background

This page contains major sites that store, use, or produce large quantities of toxic chemicals within Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard Parishes. OMB Watch created this page by merging four Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) databases, which OMB Watch makes publicly available through its project RTK NET (the Right-To-Know Network).

Minnesota lawmakers are considering biomonitoring legislation that would test Minnesota citizens to determine their exposure levels to a variety of toxic chemicals. The proposed law seeks to better gauge health risks currently posed by such chemicals, as the first step toward controlling and reducing those risks.

Last month, Oregon lawmakers eliminated a provision in the state's Toxics Use and Hazardous Waste Reduction law that required industries to produce annual reports on 'toxics use reduction.' The annual reporting requirement was replaced with a one-time report on pollution prevention plans, in a move that has shocked and angered state environmental leaders, who pushed to expand, not reduce, reporting on and public access to pollution prevention information.