Description: The air pollution data (ICIS-AIR) contains compliance and permit data for stationary sources of air pollution (such as electric power plants, steel mills, factories, and universities) regulated by EPA, state and local air pollution agencies. The information in ICIS-AIR is used by the states to prepare State Implementation Plans (SIPs) and to track the compliance status of point sources with various regulatory programs under Clean Air Act.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities. The database also contains links to compliance and enforcement information.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the National Clean Diesel Campaign (NCDC) to address the emissions of legacy fleet diesel engines. Beginning in 2008, Congress appropriated funding for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Program under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) to reduce emissions from heavy-duty diesel engines. From 2008-2010, the DERA Program awarded nearly $470 million to over 350 grantees in every state and the District of Columbia to retrofit, replace, or repower dirty diesel vehicles and equipment. For more information, please go to https://www.epa.gov/cleandiesel
By using MyEnvironment, you can find information about each of the DERA grants awarded since 2008 – including the name of the grantee, a description of the vehicles and clean diesel technologies used, and the project’s benefits. These benefits are displayed as the equivalent to eliminating the exhaust from older diesel trucks each year.
Source: Innovative Strategies Group Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Date: 2011
Nonattainment PM2.5 24-hour (2006 standard)
Description: These areas exceed the 2006 24-hour design value for PM 2.5.
"Particulate matter," also known as particle pollution or PM, is a complex mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets. Particle pollution is made up of a number of components, including acids (such as nitrates and sulfates), organic chemicals, metals, and soil or dust particles."Fine particles," such as those found in smoke and haze, are 2.5 micrometers in diameter and smaller. These particles, known as PM 2.5, can be directly emitted from sources such as forest fires, or they can form when gases emitted from power plants, industries and automobiles react in the air.
Spatial Metadata: NAA PM 2.5
Date: See source metadata by following the Source link above for the latest date information.
Nonattainment Ozone 8-hour (2008 standard)
Description: Ozone (O3) is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms. Ground-level or "bad" ozone is not emitted directly into the air, but is created by chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the presence of sunlight. Emissions from industrial facilities and electric utilities, motor vehicle exhaust, gasoline vapors, and chemical solvents are some of the major sources of NOx and VOC.
Spatial Metadata: NAA Ozone 8-hour
Date: See source metadata by following the Source link above for the latest date information.
Description: As authorized by the Clean Water Act, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program controls water pollution by regulating sources, such as municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, that discharge pollutants into waters of the United States. EPA tracks water discharge permits through the Permit Compliance System (PCS), which includes information on when a permit was issued and when it expires, how much the company is permitted to discharge, and the actual monitoring data showing what the company has discharged.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities. The database also contains links to compliance and enforcement information.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: Water quality monitoring information comes from EPA's Storage and Retrieval (STORET) System, a repository of physical, chemical and biological monitoring data from state and federal agencies, watershed organizations, volunteer groups and many others. Surface water, Ground water, and Others are general categories for more specific STORET Station Types.
Source: EPA's Storage and Retrieval (STORET) System
Date: See source metadata by following the Source link above for the latest date information.
USGS real-time gaging stations
Description: The USGS water monitors layer is retrieved in real-time from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Information System (NWIS) website. The NWIS service provides current conditions from selected surface water, ground water, and water quality sites.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS)
Date: See source metadata by following the Source link above for the latest date information.
Description: The Emergency Incidents Sites as reported by On-Scene Coordinators to EPA's On-Scene Coordinator website.
Description: Superfund is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. The National Priorities List (NPL) is the list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: Hazardous waste is waste that is dangerous or potentially harmful to our health or the environment. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, gases, or sludges. They can be discarded commercial products, like cleaning fluids or pesticides, or the by-products of manufacturing processes.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities. The database also contains links to compliance and enforcement information.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: The Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System (ACRES) captures grantee reported data on environmental activities and accomplishments (assessment, cleanup and redevelopment), funding, job training, and details on cooperative partners and leveraging efforts - a central objective of the Brownfields Program. The information in ACRES is provided at the property and grant level.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description: The Hazardous Waste Report (Biennial Report) collects data on the generation, management, and minimization of hazardous waste. This provides detailed data on the generation of hazardous waste from large quantity generators and data on waste management practices from treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source
Description:The Shout out layer displays user submissions about local efforts that promote environmental advancement in the community. The Shout out section also allows others to become aware of these projects, and could encourage more grass-roots environmental projects.
Source:User Submissions
Date: Updated Weekly
Description: This dataset depicts neighborhood boundaries in 393 U.S. cities. Neighborhoods are defined based on information collected from official city websites, maps and background imagery, city officials, residents and real estate agents.
Source: Factle Corporation
Spatial Metadata: Neighborhood Boundaries
Date: 2008
Description: Total cancer risk per million, by tract as determined by the 2018 National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment.
Source: EPA Office of Air and Radiation
Spatial Metadata: Air Toxics Cancer Risk by Tract
Date: 2018
Description: The number of infant deaths (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births by County for 5-year average (2006 - 2010).
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Spatial Metadata: County Level Infant Health and Mortality
Date: 2010
Description: Babies born at weights below healthful levels. Birth weight between 1500 grams (3 lbs, 5 oz) and 2500 grams (5 lbs, 8 oz) by County based on 3-year average ( 2012 - 2014).
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Spatial Metadata: County Level Infant Health and Mortality
Date: 2014
Description: The term "biomass" can describe many different fuel types from such sources as trees; construction, wood, and agricultural wastes; fuel crops; sewage sludge; and manure. Agricultural wastes include materials such as corn husks, rice hulls, peanut shells, grass clippings, and leaves. Trees and fuel crops (i.e., crops specifically grown for electricity production) can be replaced on a short time scale.
Biomass obtains its energy from the sun while plants are growing. Plants convert solar energy into chemical energy during the process of photosynthesis. This energy is released as heat energy when the plant material is burned. Biomass power plants burn biomass fuel in boilers. The heat released from this process is used to heat water into steam to turn a steam turbine to create electricity.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: Coal is a fossil fuel formed from the decomposition of organic materials that have been subjected to geologic heat and pressure over millions of years. Coal is commonly burned in a boiler to produce steam. The steam is run through a turbine to generate electricity.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: Geothermal energy is continuously created beneath the Earth's surface from the extreme heat contained in liquid rock (called magma) within the Earth's core. When this heat naturally creates hot water or steam, it can be piped to the surface and then used to turn a steam turbine to generate electricity. Geothermal energy can also be obtained by piping water underground to extract heat from hot, dry rocks. Heat is then returned to the surface to turn a steam turbine and generate electricity.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: Water evaporates from the Earth's surface, forms clouds, precipitates back to earth, and flows toward the ocean. The movement of water as it flows downstream creates kinetic energy that can be converted into electricity. A hydroelectric power plant converts this energy into electricity by forcing water, often held at a dam, through a hydraulic turbine that is connected to a generator. The water exits the turbine and is returned to a stream or riverbed below the dam.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: Natural gas is a fossil fuel formed when layers of buried plants and animals are exposed to intense heat and pressure over thousands of years. The energy that the plants and animals originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of carbon in natural gas. Natural gas is combusted to generate electricity, enabling this stored energy to be transformed into usable power.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: Nuclear energy originates from the splitting of uranium atoms in a process called fission. At the power plant, the fission process is used to generate heat for producing steam, which is used by a turbine to generate electricity.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: At power plants, several methods can be used to generate electricity from oil. One method is to burn the oil in boilers to produce steam, which is used by a steam turbine to generate electricity. A more common method is to burn the oil in combustion turbines, which are similar to jet engines. Another technology is to burn the oil in a combustion turbine and use the hot exhaust to make steam to drive a steam turbine.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: Fossil fuels are the nation’s principal source of electricity. The popularity of these fuels is largely due to their low costs. Fossil fuels come in three major forms-coal, oil, and natural gas.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: There are two common ways to convert solar energy into electricity: photovoltaic and solar-thermal technologies. Photovoltaic systems consist of wafers made of silicon or other conductive materials. When sunlight hits the wafers, a chemical reaction occurs, resulting in the release of electricity. Solar-thermal technologies concentrate the sun's rays with mirrors or other reflective devices to heat a liquid to create steam, which is then used to turn a generator and create electricity.
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: Wind is created because the sun heats the Earth unevenly, due to the seasons and cloud cover. This uneven heating, in addition to the Earth's rotation, causes warmer air to move toward cooler air. This movement of air is wind.
Wind turbines use two or three long blades to collect the energy in the wind and convert it to electricity. The blades spin when the wind blows over them. The energy of motion contained in the wind is then converted into electricity as the spinning turbine blades turn a generator. To create enough electricity for a town or city, several wind turbine towers need to be placed together in groups or rows to create a "wind farm."
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description:
Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Database (eGRID)
Date: 2014
Description: The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 provides EPA with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures. Certain substances are generally excluded from TSCA, including, among others, food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides. TSCA addresses the production, importation, use, and disposal of specific chemicals including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos, radon and lead-based paint.
Source: EPA Envirofacts Data Source