Recap of the campaign John Criswell, outreach coordinator for the Environmental Community Organization, thanked Cincinnati Specialties for meeting and summarized the previous meetings and topics of discussion between the environmental coalition and the company. Toxic Release Inventory Numbers James McKenna handed out two graphs showing Cincinnati Specialties Toxic Release Inventory numbers from 1988 - 1998. One graph represented Cincinnati Specialties overall pollution releases, and did not detail individual toxic releases. The other graph represented Cincinnati Specialties municipal sewer releases from 1997 - 1998. This graph represented Cincinnati Specialties overall sewer emissions, and also showed the amount of methanol released per year.
Methanol is their largest pollution emission to the sewers.
1997 is the most recent year for which Toxic Release Inventory numbers are publicly available. Therefore, the 1998 numbers were estimates. The Toxic Release Inventory reporting requirements have changed since the program was started in 1988. To adjust for this, James McKenna said the graph uses 1998 reporting criteria. The graphs showed a gradual decline in overall emission from 1988 until 1992.