The Hampshire Research Institute
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Publications are not available from HRI. NOTE ordering information below. Taking Stock: North American Pollutant
Releases and Transfers Putting the Pieces Together: The Status of
Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers in North America PRTR Resource Compact
Disk United
Nations Institute for Training and Research, 2000 http://www.unitar.org/cwm/prtr/ In order to assure the availability of
resource materials for the development of national Pollutant Release and
Transfer Register (PRTR) programs in nations with limited access to the
Internet and World Wide Web, UNITAR commissioned Hampshire Research to
research and collect relevant national and multilateral publications and web
sites, and compile them into readily accessible format on a CD-ROM disk. A Benchmark for Reporting Chemicals at
Industrial Facilities Proposal for improved government, non-government, and corporate
environmental reporting in North America and Europe. World Wildlife Fund. 1995. The Right to Know: The Promise of
Low-Cost Public Inventories of Toxic Chemicals National
reports on the U.S. Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), the annual collection of
information from manufacturers on their releases to the environment and
shipment to other sites of some 600 toxic chemicals. US EPA. 33/50 Program Final
Report, U.S. EPA, Office
of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 1998 Hampshire designed and compiled the data for
EPA’s 33/50 Program information, a voluntary program for industry reduction
of releases and transfers based on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).
Hampshire has supplied the Agency, as requested, with summary data and
compilations of participant information, chemical- and state-specific data,
and other characteristic information. The final report reflects data through
the 1995 conclusion of the Program and the 1996 reporting year. Pollution Prevention 1991: Progress on Reducing Industrial
Pollutants Report on
trends in industrial pollution prevention in industry, the federal
government, states, universities, and localities. U.S. EPA. October 1991. Toxics Watch 1995 Comprehensive
review of information on toxic chemicals in commerce, in industrial waste,
and in the environment. INFORM, Inc.
1995. A Clearer View of Toxics: New Jersey's Reporting Requirements
as a Model for the United States Preliminary
report comparing New Jersey pollution prevention and release data to federal
Toxics Release Inventory data. INFORM,
Inc.1994. Stirring Up Innovation: Environmental Improvements in Paints
and Adhesives Report on
successful substitutions of non-toxic or less toxic substances in paint and
adhesive products, how the innovations were achieved, and factors that
motivated and inhibited the development of the alternatives. INFORM, Inc. 1994. Environmental Dividends: Cutting More Chemical Wastes and Cutting Chemical Wastes: What 29 Organic Chemical Plants Are
Doing To Reduce Hazardous Wastes Seminal
study of factors influencing and motivating source reduction activities at
chemical manufacturing facilities. Follow-up study at the same plants six
years later. INFORM, Inc. 1992 and
1985. Toxics Release Inventory: Monitoring Industrial Sources in the
Czech Republic Workshop
Participants' Manual, Environmental Training Project for Central and Eastern
Europe, in Czech and English. Institute for
Sustainable Communities, May 1994.
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Commission for Environmental Cooperation http://www.cec.org/ 393 rue
St.-Jacques ouest, bureau 200, Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1N9 Canada. Phone:
514/350-4300. INFORM, Inc.
http://www.informinc.org/ Institute for
Sustainable Communities http://www.iscvt.org/ United
Nations Environment Programme, Chemicals http://irptc.unep.ch/irptc/ United Nations Institute for Training and
Research http://www.unitar.org/ U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/ World
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Other
studies that Hampshire has performed for U.S. federal and state offices: Influence of CBI Requirements on TSCA
Implementation, U.S.
EPA, March 1992. Study of effects of Confidential Business Information claims
on usefulness of information submitted to EPA under the Toxic Substances
Control Act. Hampshire's careful analysis became the basis of Agency
proposals for reform of CBI policies. Health and Environmental Categorization Scheme for Measuring the Success of EPA's Enforcement Program, U.S. EPA, September 1994. Hampshire has since helped train EPA Regional staff in procedures to implement this scheme, which will enable EPA to better judge the effectiveness of its enforcement efforts in bringing about actual benefits such as reductions in releases of toxic chemicals. Comparative Analysis of the Efficiency of Different Companies, cross-tabulation of TRI releases and transfers with dollar sales as a potential indicator of manufacturers' environmental efficiency, U.S. EPA, April 1991. Priorities for Pollution Prevention in the State of New Jersey, New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection, September 1990. Hazardous
Waste Reduction Review
(individual reports on Pretreatment Program; Air Program; Water Program; RCRA
Program; TRI/RTK, TCPA, ECRA, and Other State Programs), New Jersey Dept. of
Environmental Protection, 1989. Reviews of
hazardous waste reduction information resources at federal and state levels,
weighing the value and shortcomings of available information for assessing
progress in pollution prevention: Hazardous
Waste Reduction Information Needs, U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, May 1986. Hazardous
Waste Reduction Information Review, U.S. EPA, September 1988. Review
of New Jersey Hazardous Waste Reduction Information Resources, New Jersey Dept. of Environmental
Protection, September 1988. Numerous studies to improve the effectiveness of EPA information resources,
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