U.S. Toxic Release Inventory Volatile Organic Compound Releases for 1995-1997

49 specific volatile organic compounds were selected to calculate total annual releases from U.S. manufacturing facilities. This subset of the EPA Envirofacts data is designed to locate and plot facilities in the Toxic Release Inventory and display VOC releases in pounds per year. The data originates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory CD-ROM and website.

Use Cases

• Mapping industrial pollution sources based on facility location data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing trends in volatile organic compound releases based on the 1995-1997 time range
• Modeling environmental risk by aggregating total pounds of specific chemicals released per facility
• Cross-referencing facility-level data with other environmental or demographic datasets

Strengths

• Focuses on 49 specific volatile organic compounds with defined CAS IDs and chemical names
• Provides data for three consecutive years: 1995, 1996, and 1997
• Derived from the authoritative U.S. EPA Toxic Release Inventory program

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Envirofacts / Toxic Release Inventory

Collection Method

Aggregated from the USEPA's Toxic Release Inventory CD-ROM and website.

Time Range

1995, 1996, 1997

Freshness

Data covers 1995-1997; last update date is unknown.

Geography

United States (facilities in the U.S. Toxic Release Inventory)