Corporate Environmental

Performance – Solving the

Facility/Parent Company
Barrier
Kevin Donovan
Toxics Release Inventory
Program
April 1, 2009
 Corporate Environmental
Performance Session
 Background on TRI and Corporate
Parent Information

 EPA National Dialogue and Public

Access Plan

 EPA Study of TRI Parent Information

 Corporate Environmental
Performance Session
 Parent Company Information as Part
of Overall TRI Data Quality

 Plans for Early Data Sharing

 Discussion Questions ?
 Corporate Environmental
Performance Session
Discussion Questions
 Is it totally up to EPA to solve all the
issues with Parent Company
Information in TRI?

 Would users of this data be

interested in working with
Corporations to improve the
consistency of reporting?
(e.g. conventions for parent names,
increased communication from
 Corporate Environmental
Performance Session
Discussion Questions

 How should EPA balance the need to

improve TRI Parent Company
information in the near term, with
longer term efforts to generate
consistent approaches across many
EPA data systems ?