TRI Fight Heating Up - States File Suit

Twelve states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the December 2006 regulation changes increasing the thresholds required for detailed Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reporting.

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced today that the suit was filed on Nov. 28 in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. District Judge Barbara S. Jones and Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman have been assigned to the case.

Eleven state attorney generals and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection were named on the suit. In addition to New York, the attorney generals named on the suit are from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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