49 volatile organic compounds are tracked for facilities reporting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory. This subset from the Envirofacts point data set includes total pounds of VOC releases for the year 1995. It is provided by the CEOS_EXTRA organization via NASA's Earthdata platform.
Use Cases
- Spatially map manufacturing facility locations using geospatial point data from the Envirofacts set.
- Analyze total pounds of volatile organic compounds released per facility for the 1995 reporting year.
- Compare emission levels across specific VOCs like Benzene (CAS 71-43-2) or Trichloroethene (CAS 79-01-6).
- Identify facilities contributing to regional VOC pollution based on reported release quantities.
Strengths
- Contains data on 49 specific volatile organic compounds with CAS identifiers.
- Includes total release quantities in pounds for a defined reporting year (1995).
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, limited to a single year (1995).
- The list of 49 VOCs includes chemicals that may not appear in the actual TRI data, indicating potential data gaps.
- Sample size and row count for facilities are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Envirofacts point data set, subset of the Toxic Release Inventory.
- Collection Method
- Compiled from the USEPA's Toxic Release Inventory CD-ROM for 1995.
- Time Range
- 1995
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United States (implied by U.S. EPA jurisdiction)