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Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Success Stories in Advocacy
TRI Data Used to Highlight Toxic Air Emissions and Make Strong
Recommendations to the Alleghany County Health Department
A Penn Environment Research Policy Center report makes recommendations
to the Alleghany County Health Department based on large industrial air
pollution emissions in Allegheny County, PA. Recommendations include:
Issuing new or revising existing clean air permits, increasing consequences
for permit violations, requiring all facilities to submit to daily monitoring of
toxic pollution emissions and supplementing the existing countywide air
quality monitoring system with additional short-term distributed monitoring
campaigns.
The policy center report focuses on ten facilities in Allegheny County, PA that release large amounts of toxic substances
that can potentially be harmful to the public; although there are other hazardous air pollution sources in the county. This
report uses TRI data which allows researchers to highlight toxic pollution information and alert surrounding communities
about the chemicals in their neighborhood.
Inglis, J., & Garber, A. Toxic Ten: The Allegheny County Polluters that Are Fouling Our Air and Threatening Our
Health. 2015. Available online at: httn: nennenvironment.orn reports nae toxic-ten
Quick Facts
>	TRI data were used to highlight
toxic pollution information to
communities near in Allegheny
County, PA.
>	TRI data were used to
strengthen clean air permitting
requirements and daily toxic
emissions monitoring.
To learn more about the TRI Program, please visit:
https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/learn-about-toxics-release-invento

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