---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1272"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1272"
heading: "Publicity; reports; dissemination of information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1272"
units:
  - "Chapter 30 — Hazardous Substances"
---

# §1272. Publicity; reports; dissemination of information

- (a) **Summaries of judgments, decrees, orders—** The [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c) may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing any judgments, decrees, or court orders which have been rendered under this chapter, including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof.
- (b) **Information as to health dangers and investigations—** The [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c) may also cause to be disseminated information regarding [hazardous substances](/usc/15/1261.md?p=f) in situations involving, in the opinion of the [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c), imminent danger to health. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c) from collecting, reporting, and illustrating the results of the investigations of the [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–613, § 13, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 379; Pub. L. 110–314, title II, § 204(b)(4)(B), (C), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3041, 3042.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–314, § 204(b)(4)(B), substituted “Commission” for “Secretary”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–314, § 204(b)(4)(B), (C), substituted “Commission” for “Department” after “investigations of the” and for “Secretary” wherever appearing.