EEW’s work draws on open datasets provided by the U.S. federal government— but our work only scratches the surface! Below we list a collection of open federal data tools and resources relevant to various aspects of environmental governance, including health and toxics; air and surface quality water, and much more, for you to delve deeper. (Descriptions below are typically drawn from the sites themselves.)
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Toxics Release
A resource for learning about toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities reported by industrial and federal facilities
Read moreIntegrated Risk Information System
A human health assessment program that evaluates information on health effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants
Read moreECHO Water Pollution Search
The Water Pollution Search allows users to search for DMR or TRI pollutant discharges and the results provide top-ten lists of the largest surface water discharges
Read moreTool for Reduction and Assessment of Critical Impacts
TRACI is an environmental impact assessment tool. It provides characterization factors for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), industrial ecology, and sustainability metrics.
Read moreAcid rain emissions tracking system
The Acid Rain Program (ARP), established under Title IV-Acid Deposition Control requires major emission reductions of sulfur dioxide (SO 2) and nitrogen oxides (NO x), the primary precursors of acid rain, from the power sector
Read moreAirdata
The AirData website gives you access to air quality data collected at outdoor monitors across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The data comes primarily from the AQS (Air Quality System) database.
Read moreNational Emissions Inventory
The National Emissions Inventory (NEI) is a comprehensive and detailed estimate of air emissions of criteria pollutants, criteria precursors, and hazardous air pollutants from air emissions sources.
Read moreEnvirofacts
The Envirofacts Data Warehouse contains information from select EPA Environmental program office databases and provides access about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
Read moreBeaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health
The resources on this page help state and local officials to monitor beach health and to make decisions about when to issue an advisory or close beaches due to unsafe environmental conditions. The resources also provide information on activities and programs that affect and protect the water quality at beaches.
Read moreWatershed Assessment Tracking and Environmental Results
The Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results System (WATERS) unites water quality information previously available only from several independent and unconnected databases.
Read moreSafe Drinking Water Information System
Reporting on Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), treatment techniques, and monitoring and reporting requirements to ensure that water provided to customers is safe for human consumption.
Read moreFlood Hazard Mapping
FEMA provides flood hazard and risk data to help guide mitigation actions.
Read moreUSGS National Water Quality Assessment
The National Water Quality Program (NWQP) of the Water Mission Area conducts water-quality monitoring, assessment, and research activities that assess the current quality of the Nation’s freshwater resources and how it is changing over time, explain how human activities and natural factors (e.g., land use, water use and climatevariability) are affecting the quality of surface water.
Read moreUSGS National Stream Quality Accounting Network
The National Stream Quality Accounting Network ( NASQAN) program of the U.S. Geological Survey provides ongoing characterization of the concentrations and flux of sediment and chemicals in the Nation’s largest rivers.
Read moreUSGS National Atmospheric Deposition Program
Monitoring of chemical constituents deposited from the atmosphere via rain, sleet, and snow.
Read moreTotal Diet Study
The Total Diet Study (TDS) is an ongoing FDA program that monitors levels of about 800 contaminants and nutrients in the average U.S. diet.
Read moreNational Water Information System
The USGS investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters.
Read moreAir Quality System
The Air Quality System (AQS) contains ambient air pollution data collected by EPA, state, local, and tribal air pollution control agencies from over thousands of monitors. AQS also contains meteorological data, descriptive information about each monitoring station (including its geographic location and its operator), and data quality assurance.
Read moreEnviroMapper
This Web site provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
Read moreTRI Explorer
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Explorer allows you generate reports on releases, transfers, and waste managed that can be displayed by facility, chemical, geographic area, industry (NAICS code), or reporting years. You may also generate State factsheets.
Read moreMyEnvironment
The MyEnvironment search application is designed to provide a cross-section of environmental information based on the user’s location.
Read moreRCRAInfo
RCRAInfo characterizes facility status, regulated activities, and compliance histories in addition to capturing detailed data on the generation of hazardous waste from large quantity generators and on waste management practices from treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
Read moreNational Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
The National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (NRHEEC) is a series of ongoing assessments of the U.S. population’s exposure to environmental chemicals by measuring chemicals in a person’s blood or urine.
Read moreNational Environmental Health Tracking Network
The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) brings together health data and environment data from national, state, and city sources and provides supporting information to make the data easier to understand.
Read moreChildhood Lead Poisioning Data & Surveillance Resources
CDC uses available data and generates statistics to track progress towards the elimination of childhood lead poisoning in the United States.
Read moreComptox
CompTox provides access to multiple types of data on toxic chemicals including physicochemical properties, environmental fate and transport, exposure, usage, in vivo toxicity, and in vitro bioassay.
Read moreCleanups in My Community
CIMC enables you to map and list hazardous waste cleanup locations and grant areas, and drill down to details about those cleanups and grants and other, related information.
Read moreEnviroAtlas
EnviroAtlas allows analysis of “what if?” scenarios and provides national to local scale data and analysis of the distribution of ecosystem services, benefits, stressors, and drivers of change.
Read moreNational Air Toxics Assessment
NATA is a screening tool that estimates cancer and noncancer risks based on chronic inhalation exposure to outdoor sources of air toxics
Read moreRisk-Screening Environmental Indicators
The RSEI model is a computer-based screening tool developed by EPA that analyzes factors that may result in chronic human health risks. These factors include the amount of toxic chemical releases, the degree of toxicity and the size of the exposed population.
Read moreEnvironmental Compliance History Online
ECHO, Enforcement and Compliance History Online, provides compliance and enforcement information for approximately 800,000 EPA-regulated facilities nationwide. ECHO includes permit, inspection, violation, enforcement action, and penalty information about facilities regulated under the Clean Air Act (CAA) Stationary Source Program, Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Elimination Discharge System (NPDES), and/or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Information also is provided on surrounding demographics when available.
Read moreFacility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool
FLIGHT provides information about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large facilities in the U.S. These facilities are required to report annual data about GHG emissions to EPA as part of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP).
Read moreGreenhouse Gas Reporting Program Reported Data
Data from the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Read moreData Pathfinders
Data pathfinders provide direct links to commonly-used datasets across NASA’s Earth science data collections.
Read moreHow’s My Waterway
How’s My Waterway was designed to provide the general public with information about the condition of their local waters based on data that states, federal, tribal, local agencies and others have provided to EPA.
Read moreNASA Worldview
The NASA Worldview app provides a satellite’s perspective of the planet as it looks today and as it has in the past through daily satellite images.
Read moreU.S. Energy Mapping System
The U.S. Energy Mapping System is an interactive, comprehensive visual reference for energy infrastructure in the United States that shows the locations of energy infrastructure.
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