EPA Launches Enforcement Effort to Reduce Vinyl Chloride Emissions

摘要

EPA's Mid-Atlantic office will begin an enforcement initiative this fall that will target emissions of vinyl chloride, a known human carcinogen. Region III, consisting of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, accounts for 34% of the natioon's vinyl chloride emissions, agency officials say. EPA says facilities may be skirting environmental laws by exploiting the gaps between the agency's different regulations for air, water, and hazardous waste-a practice called media-shifting.