While it appears that the issue is one of requiring companies that release pollutants to use a "long" or a "short" form to report toxic release information I think there's more to it.
"The Bush administration in September announced it wanted to reduce the regulatory burden on companies by allowing some to use a short form when they report their pollution to the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory.
Those changes would exempt companies from disclosing their toxic pollution on the long form if they claim to release fewer than 5,000 pounds of a specific chemical — the current limit is 500 pounds — or if they store it onsite but claim to release no amounts of the worst pollutants." (
http://www.theunionleader.com/articl...5-c18af49a1d75)
But it appears that the short form doesn't include very much information about the types of toxic releases, or any details about them. From the same ink:
"EPA officials say communities will still know about the types of toxic releases, but not some of the details about how each chemical was managed or released."
It looks to me like bush wants to increase the limit of toxic releases by 10 times before any details or other information must be reported to the public.
I'm sure Mr. V can explain exactly how this is a good thing for our country.