The EPA on Monday, May 17, 2010, announced it has added more than 6,300 chemicals and 3,800 chemical facilities regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to a public database called Envirofacts.

The Envirofacts database is the agency's single-point access on the Internet for information about environmental activities that may affect air, water and land in the U.S., and provides tools for analyzing the data. It includes facility name and address information, aerial image of the facility and surrounding area, map location of the facility, and links to other EPA information on the facility, such as inspection and compliance reports that are available through the Enforcement Compliance History Online (ECHO) database. The EPA is also adding historic facility information for another 2,500 facilities.

The agency noted it intends to take additional actions in the months ahead to further increase the amount of information available to the public.

The website is www.epa.gov/enviro.

SOURCE: EPA press release