You'll forgive me any concern with having so few, if no, chemicals listed on the virtual elimination list to rely on that particular tool.
I guess this is a question to the committee at large. It seems there's a lot of backdoor clauses built into CEPA to allow the politics to interfere with the science. The process of actually getting something on the virtual elimination list, just by the evidence, the fact that there's nothing there--one proposed, of all these thousands of chemicals.... Certainly the intuitive person says there must be more that we certainly just don't want in our environment.
I have a question for Mr. Weiner. I've seen a number of reports around the Great Lakes in terms of point source. I know you can't comment specifically on CEPA. How do Canadian sources stack up against our U.S. counterparts around the Great Lakes in terms of the amount of toxic emissions that are going on? Has the IJC ever done a study as to total emissions on a national basis?