On October 17, 1986, President Reagan signed into law the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, which created the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program. EPCRA seeks to give local governments and communities tools to prepare for and prevent chemical emergencies.

Section 313 of EPCRA requires reporting of chemical releases by certain industrial facilities under the TRI Program. The reported data are made available in various online tools and help communities and others make more informed decisions that impact their health and environment.

TRI data for 2020 are now included in the online TRI tools, such as TRI Search and TRI Explorer. These data reflect environmental releases and other waste management of TRI-covered chemicals--including certain PFAS--that occurred at industrial and federal facilities between January 1 and December 31, 2020. Get 2020 data.

EPA recently notified 31 contract sterilization facilities that it is considering requiring them to report on environmental releases and other waste management of ethylene oxide. Ethylene oxide is already on the TRI chemical list, but not all industry sectors that use and release it are currently covered by TRI reporting requirements. Get the details.