Links to Other Community Right-to-Know Resources -
Organizations that support expanded right-to-know as a way to promote pollution prevention, clean production, worker safety, and environmental justice:

US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) and the state PIRGs have information on successful federal and state right-to-know laws that “not only empower citizens and communities to protect themselves, but also give industries a public incentive to clean up their act, and [that] have resulted in dramatic reductions in toxic pollution and toxic chemical use”. (http://pirg.org/rtk/index.html).

The National Environmental Trust has a webpage detailing loopholes in the federal TRI program that prevent the public from knowing about a significant quantity of chemical releases, particularly of persistent and bioaccumulative toxins (PBTs) such as mercury and dioxin (http://environet.policy.net/health/neighborhood/chemicalsrtk.vtml).

The Breast Cancer Fund identifies -- and advocates for the elimination of -- preventable causes of this disease, including environmental contamination. Its five-point action plan (http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_evidence_main.htm) calls for requirements on companies to report the quantity of toxic chemicals they use.

The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (http://www.uml.edu/centers/LCSP/) demonstrates how information on toxic chemical use can help promote community and worker involvement in designing clean production processes and systems.