According to the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), chemical manufacturing is one of the U.S.’s three largest polluters, along with metal mining and electric utilities, which together account for two-thirds of the country’s toxic releases.
Study suggests major chemical corporations hide most polluting activities in subsidiaries
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