EPA seems to have backed down halfway on its threat to cut the amount of information the U.S. public gets about toxic substances that industry puts in their air, water, and soil. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson wrote two New Jersey senators that he had decided not to switch the agency's Toxics Release Inventory from annual to every-other-year reporting. But EPA still plans other changes that would leave more than a thousand U.S. communities with no data -- despite a 231-187 vote by the House against the plan in May 2006. Associated Press in the Washington Post 11/30/06 VIA - sej.org