After the Bhopal disaster , where a Union Carbide plant released forty tons of methyl isocyanate into the atmosphere in a village just south of Bhopal , India , the U.S. government passed the Emergency Planning and Right to Know Act of 1986 . Introduced by Henry Waxman , the act required all corporations to report their toxic chemical pollution annually , which was then gathered into a report known as the Toxics Release Inventory ( TRI )
Bhopal disaster
Bhopal disaster
Environmental justice