Most toxic emissions are legal because of limited regulation by Federal, state and local authorities.
The database has given communities a tool to measure and fight toxic emissions.
East Germany urgently needs new equipment to reduce toxic emissions.
The state says the change would allow it to focus on other toxic emissions.
Now, Dow has a program in place to cut its key toxic emissions in half by 1995.
In terms of toxic emissions, the bill does little.
The previous year's report, which covered just manufacturing, showed 2.7 billion pounds of toxic emissions.
Until then, the plants had been exempt from federal standards for sources of toxic emissions.
We have to find an economic path that does not strip the world of its natural resources and produce toxic or greenhouse emissions.
But the biggest direct impact will come from the provisions dealing with toxic emissions.