The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a dataset compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It contains information on the release and waste management for over 800 toxic chemicals and toxic chemical categories as reported annually by facilities in certain industries as well as federal facilities. This inventory was established under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) and expanded by the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. TRI data support informed decision-making by communities, government agencies, industries, and others.

Contains information about toxic chemicals in Delaware, based on annual reports from facilities that use or manufacture covered chemicals. These facilities report their data to both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Delaware. DNREC reviews Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reports received from Delaware facilities. The EPA publishes national TRI reports annually and provides a searchable database.

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a resource for learning about toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities reported by industrial and federal facilities. TRI data support informed decision-making by communities, government agencies, companies, and others.

These data provide mapping, display, and analysis capabilities for the TRI National Analysis data at the following geographic levels: state, county, large aquatic ecosystem, metro/micropolitan statistical area, and facility. See the links below for data from specific reporting years. The TRI National Analysis is EPA's annual interpretation and summary of the most recent TRI data. It highlights how toxic chemical wastes were managed, where toxic chemicals were released and in what quantities, and how the TRI data compare to data from previous years. This dataset reports US, state, county, large aquatic ecosystem, metro/micropolitan statistical area, and facility level statistics of TRI releases, including information on: number of TRI facilities in the geographic area and their releases (total releases, as well as releases to water, air, and land); population information, including populations living within 1 mile of TRI facilities (total population, percent minority, and in percent under the poverty line); and Risk Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) model related pounds, toxicity-weighted pounds, and RSEI score. The source of administrative boundary data is the 2013 cartographic boundary shapefiles. Location of facilities is provided by EPA's Facility Registry Service (FRS). Large Aquatic Ecosystems boundaries were derived from the hydrologic unit boundaries and codes for the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was revised for inclusion in the National Atlas of the United States of America (November 2002), and updated to match the streams file created by the USGS National Mapping Division (NMD) for the National Atlas of the United States of America.

This submission includes publicly available data extracted in its original form. Please reference the Related Publication listed here for source and citation information: TRI basic plus data files guides. (2024, September 18). US EPA. https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/tri-basic-plus-data-files-guides If you have questions about the underlying data stored here, please contact tri.help@epa.gov. If you have questions or recommendations related to this metadata entry and extracted data, please contact the CAFE Data Management team at: climatecafe@bu.edu. "EPA has been collecting Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data since 1987. The "Basic Plus" data files include ten file types that collectively contain all of the data fields from the TRI Reporting Form R and Form A. The files themselves are in tab-delimited .txt format and then compressed into a .zip file. 1a: Facility, chemical, releases and other waste management summary information 1b: Chemical activities and uses 2a: On- and off-site disposal, treatment, energy recovery, and recycling information; non-production-related waste managed quantities; production/activity ratio information; and source reduction activities 2b: Detailed on-site waste treatment methods and efficiency 3a: Transfers off site for disposal and further waste management 3b: Transfers to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) (RY1987 - RY2010) 3c: Transfers to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) (RY2011 - Present) 4: Facility information 5: Optional information on source reduction, recycling and pollution control (RY2005 - Present) 6: Additional miscellaneous and optional information (RY2010 - Present) Quantities of dioxin and dioxin-like compounds are reported in grams, while all other chemicals are reported in pounds. This webpage contains the most recent versions of all TRI data files; facilities may revise previous years' TRI submissions if necessary, and any such changes will be reflected in these files. For this reason, data contained in these files may differ from data used to construct the TRI National Analysis." [Quote from https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/tri-basic-plus-data-files-calendar-years-1987-present]

Abstract

TRI tracks the management of certain toxic chemicals that may pose a threat to human health and the environment. The TRI Program is a mandatory program that was created as part of a response to several events that raised public concern about local preparedness for chemical emergencies and the availability of information on hazardous substances.

Methodology

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program tracks the industrial management of toxic chemicals that may cause harm to human health and the environment. TRI data are reported by certain industrial and federal facilities. EPA makes these data available through multiple online tools, many of which add context to help make the reported data more understandable.

Usage

There are two main data products available on this page:

• Basic Data Files : Data for a reporting year contained in a single data file, for an individual state or the entire U.S. Each file contains the most commonly used data elements from the TRI reporting form. This is a simpler set of data, compared to the Basic Plus files. Recommended for users familiar with TRI data.
• BasicPlus Data Files: Data for a reporting year for the entire U.S. Contains 10 files that collectively contain all data elements from the TRI reporting form (except Form R Schedule 1, which is available separately). Recommended for users familiar with TRI data.

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The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) tracks the management of certain toxic chemicals that may pose a threat to human health and the environment. Certain industrial facilities in the U.S. must report annually how much of each chemical is recycled, combusted for energy recovery, treated for destruction, and disposed of or otherwise released on- and off-site. This information is collectively referred to as production-related waste managed.

Descriptions of data terms and field names: https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/descriptions-tri-data-terms-text-version Factors to consider when using this data: https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/factors-consider-when-using-toxics-release-inventory-data

A federal law called the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) gives the public the right to know about toxic chemicals being released into the environment. The law requires facilities in certain industries, which manufacture, process, or use significant amounts of toxic chemicals, to report annually on their releases of these chemicals. The reports contain information about the types and amounts of toxic chemicals that are released each year to the air, water, and land as well as information on the quantities of toxic chemicals sent to other facilities for further waste management. All of this information is stored in the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) database. The data here represents facilities and chemical information that have been extracted from EPA TRIS system for reporting year 2012. The associated chemical data, table R9 TRI Chemicals 2012 is a one to many relationship.

The 2018 TRI preliminary dataset consists of TRI data for 2018. Users should note that while these preliminary data have undergone the basic data quality checks included in the online TRI reporting software, they have not undergone the complete TRI data quality process. In addition, EPA does not aggregate or summarize these data, or offer any analysis or interpretation of them.You can use the TRI preliminary dataset to: Identify how many TRI facilities operate in a certain geographic area (for example, a ZIP code);Identify which chemicals are being managed by TRI facilities and in what quantities; andFind out if a particular facility initiated any pollution prevention activities in the most recent calendar year.The agency will update the dataset several times in August and September based on information from facilities. EPA plans to publish the complete, quality-checked 2018 dataset in October 2019, followed by the 2018 TRI National Analysis in January 2020.

The TRI National Analysis is EPA's annual interpretation of TRI data at various summary levels. It highlights how toxic chemical wastes were managed, where toxic chemicals were released and how the 2015 TRI data compare to data from previous years. This dataset reports US state, county, large aquatic ecosystem, metro/micropolitan statistical area, and facility level statistics from 2015 TRI releases, including information on: number of 2015 TRI facilities in the geographic area and their releases (total, water, air, land); population information, including populations living within 1 mile of TRI facilities (total, minority, in poverty); and Risk Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) model related pounds, toxicity-weighted pounds, and RSEI score. The source of administrative boundary data is the 2013 cartographic boundary shapefiles. Location of facilities is provided by EPA's Facility Registry Service (FRS). Large Aquatic Ecosystems boundaries were dissolved from the hydrologic unit boundaries and codes for the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was revised for inclusion in the National Atlas of the United States of America (November 2002), and updated to match the streams file created by the USGS National Mapping Division (NMD) for the National Atlas of the United States of America.

EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) is a geographically-based, multimedia model and prioritization tool that helps policy makers, researchers, and communities quickly analyze large amounts of data on Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) listed toxic chemicals. RSEI incorporates information from EPA’s TRI database, which tracks certain toxic chemical releases and waste management activities at federal facilities and larger industrial facilities across the United States and its territories. RSEI incorporates over 30 years of TRI data, three U.S. censuses, toxicity and physicochemical properties for more than 400 toxic chemicals, and geographical information for more than 50,000 facilities and thousands of streams and other water bodies. All of this information is used to model and map the environmental fate and transport of each toxic chemical through the environment and the potential impacts that may result. The RSEI model calculates numeric results that are designed to be compared to other RSEI model generated results. These RSEI results are designed to help users contextualize, understand, and better communicate the relative hazards and potential for risks posed by certain waste management activities of TRI chemicals (e.g., from releases to the environment). RSEI results and custom analyses can be used for screening-level activities such as trend analyses that compare potential risk-related impacts from year to year, or for ranking and prioritizing toxic chemicals, facilities, industry sectors, or geographic regions for strategic planning. RSEI can also be used in conjunction with other data sources and environmental information, to help policy makers, researchers, and communities establish priorities for further investigation and to look at changes in potential health impacts over time.

This web feature service contains _location and facility identification information from EPA's Facility Registry System (FRS) for the subset of facilities that link to the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) System. TRI is a publicly available EPA database reported annually by certain covered industry groups, as well as federal facilities. It contains information about more than 650 toxic chemicals that are being used, manufactured, treated, transported, or released into the environment, and includes information about waste management and pollution prevention activities. FRS identifies and geospatially locates facilities, sites or places subject to environmental regulations or of environmental interest. Using vigorous verification and data management procedures, FRS integrates facility data from EPA's national program systems, other federal agencies, and State and tribal master facility records and provides EPA with a centrally managed, single source of comprehensive and authoritative information on facilities. This data set contains the subset of FRS integrated facilities that link to TRI facilities once the TRI data has been integrated into the FRS database. Additional information on FRS is available at the EPA website https://www.epa.gov/enviro/facility-registry-service-frs.

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data provides information about toxic substances released into the environment or managed through recycling, energy recovery, and treatment in the United States. Annual releases are compiled and reported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and shared on the TRI Website. The TRI covers over 650 chemicals and chemical groupings across a broad range of industries. Chemicals covered are linked to cancer or other chronic human health effects, tied to significant adverse human health effects, or significant adverse environmental effects.

This data is obtained from the EPA’s API. Users can also query the EPA's website for this information by using the links to each table listed as HTML resources below and supplying the State FIPS Code of "42003" to limit the results returned to only Allegheny County on the Search Criteria page.

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The “Type 4” file contains the basic facility identification information for all facilities that have ever reported to the TRI Program. Most facilities submit several reporting forms each year, for many years. When the data are collected at the TRI Data Processing Center, differences in facility identification information between forms and across years are identified, researched and reconciled. File Type 4 contains this “reconciliation” of all the facility identification data the TRI Program has collected from each facility during its TRI reporting history.

You’ll notice that some facility-level data element names (e.g., those related to the facility’s name and location) appear twice in this file, once as the data element name and once with “SUBMITTED” in front of the name (e.g., FACILITY NAME and SUBMITTED FACILITY NAME). The data elements labeled “SUBMITTED” display the data as they appeared on the most recent submission for the reporting year. If the data element does not have “SUBMITTED” in front of the name, it displays the last value of any submission for any reporting year. Consider the following example.

In RY 2012, a facility reported its TRI data under the name “ABC Company.” The facility continued to submit its TRI data as “ABC Company” for the next four years. In July 2017, after submitting its RY 2016 TRI reporting form, the facility sent in a revision for RY 2012 with the facility name of “XYZ Manufacturing.

TOXNET is a group of databases hosted by the National Library of Medicine containing factual information related to the toxicity and other hazards of chemicals. They are structured around chemical records.

 There are four basic groupings of TOXNET databases. Within each of these
 groupings are one or more databases. The first grouping is Toxicology Data
 including factual information on toxicity and other hazards of chemicals. The
 databases included in Toxicology Databases are the following four - Hazardous
 Substances Data Bank (HSDB) providing broad scope in human and animal toxicity,
 safety and handling, environmental fate, and more. Scientifically
 peer-reviewed; the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) providing Data
 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of human health risk
 assessment. It, focuses on identifying hazards and assessing the connection
 between dose and response; Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System
 (CCRIS) providing carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor
 inhibition data provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and GENE-TOX
 providing peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data from the EPA.

 The second grouping is Toxicology Literature. These TOXNET databases contain
 bibliographic information with citations to the scientific literature. You can
 use this information to locate the article in a journal. Many provide
 hyperlinks to Medical Subject Headings (MESH) and other keywords. The
 databases included in Toxicology Literature are the following three - TOXLINE,
 providing an extensive array of references to literature on biochemical,
 pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other
 chemicals; Environmental Mutagen Information Center (EMIC) providing current
 and older literature on agents tested for genotoxic activity and Developmental
 and Reproductive Toxicology (DART) and Environmental Teratology Information
 Center (ETIC) providing current and older literature on developmental and
 reproductive toxicology.

 The third grouping is the Toxic Release Information which includes just The
 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database created by the Environmental Protection
 Agency and contains data on the estimated quantities of chemicals released to
 the environment or transferred off-site for waste treatment. TRI also holds
 information related to source reduction and recycling. Data for the most recent
 and two prior reporting years is currently available. This particular TRI
 database includes the years 1995 to 1999.

 The fourth grouping is Chemical Information. Chemicals are identified in a
 number of ways, including by name and structural diagram. Using a dictionary or
 a thesaurus can help you find information for a particular substance. SIS
 maintains several chemical online resources to help you determine the identity
 of a substance and point you to files or resources of interest. There are three
 databases within this grouping. The first is ChemIDplus providing Numerous
 chemical synonyms, structures, regulatory list information, and links to other
 databases containing information about the chemicals; HSDB Structures providing
 2D and 3D structural information on the HSDB chemicals and NCI-3D providing 2D
 and 3Dstructural information on compounds tested for anti-tumor activity
 compiled by the National Cancer Institute.

 The TOXNET Basic Search screens are intuitive and straightforward. Most screens
 (except for the TRI database) allow you to place all query information in a
 single input box. For example, you may be looking for a chemical name, a
 particular author, a CAS Registry Number, or any type of concept term. You may
 enter any combination of these into the single input box. In some databases,
 you may also limit your search by author, title or dates.

The table Supplemental TRI Basic Data File is part of the dataset Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) - 2020, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/pk9c-2q8g8bw9v. It contains 80936 rows across 118 variables.

TRI Basic Plus Data Files: Calendar Years 1987- Present Update Status - Includes reporting forms processed as of: October 23, 2024 EPA has been collecting Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data since 1987. The "Basic Plus" data files include ten file types that collectively contain all of the data fields from the TRI Reporting Form R and Form A. The files themselves are in tab-delimited .txt format and then compressed into a .zip file. File Types and Contents 1a: Facility, chemical, releases and other waste management summary information 1b: Chemical activities and uses 2a: On- and off-site disposal, treatment, energy recovery, and recycling information; non-production-related waste managed quantities; production/activity ratio information; and source reduction activities 2b: Detailed on-site waste treatment methods and efficiency 3a: Transfers off site for disposal and further waste management 3b: Transfers to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) (RY1987 - RY2010) 3c: Transfe

This map service shows point locations for facilities that submitted TRI reports to EPA during the most recent reporting year. EPA's Locational Reference Table is used for the facility’s latitude and longitude coordinates. Icons on the map are relatively sized based on the sum of all chemical quantities reported as released. The pop-up presents TRI data including facility name, address, industry sector, and total on-site and off-site release amounts as well as identifiers for TRI and FRS programs and a link to a more detailed TRI report. The data refreshes biannually. For more information, refere to the TRI Program Webpages, https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program.

Overall our results compared with data from the TRI database.

As authorized under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA), the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) tracks the management of certain toxic chemicals that may pose a threat to human health and the environment. U.S. facilities in different industry sectors must report annually how much of each chemical is released to the environment and/or managed through recycling, energy recovery and treatment.The map shows point locations for facilities that submitted TRI reports to EPA during the most recent reporting year. EPA's Locational Reference Table is used for the facility’s latitude and longitude coordinates. Icons on the map are relatively sized based on the sum of all chemical quantities reported as released. The pop-up presents TRI data including facility name, address, industry sector, and total on-site and off-site release amounts as well as identifiers for TRI and FRS programs and a link to a more detailed TRI report.The data refreshes biannually.