Manufacturing Industry

EPA study re-evaluates PVC; Agency to rule dioxin emissions not significant.

Plastics News, June, 2000 by Toloken, Steve

The Environmental Protection Agency appears prepared to take the side of PVC manufacturers in a long-running debate on dioxin emissions. Industry officials say an EPA study is preparing to conclude that PVC manufacturing is not a significant source of dioxin emissions, and also that the agency seems ready to endorse industry arguments on incinerator emissions from PVC.

The agency plans to release its long-awaited reassessment of the cancer-causing chemical next month, but industry officials say leaked EPA reports and presentations indicate that agency attention is shifting to other sources, such as open burning and disposal of utility poles. "We are an industry that has worked with EPA to understand and control dioxin," said Tim Burns, executive director of...

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