The Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) by WRI is a set of comprehensive and comparable greenhouse gas inventories, together with other climate-relevant indicators. CAIT has been used to analyze a wide range of climate-related data questions and help support policy decision making and discussions under the Climate Convention and in other forums. (Source: World Resources Institute)
The AQS Data Mart provides ambient air pollution data from thousands of monitoring stations across the United States. The Data Mart contains data from the previous 25 years.
The HazDat Database, from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - ATSDR), contains data on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites and emergency events, and provides information on the effects of the substances on human health.
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains two data management systems containing water quality information for the nation's waters: the Legacy Data Center (LDC), and STORET. The LDC is a static, archived database and STORET is an operational system actively being populated with water quality data.
The TRI database, from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides information on the release of toxic chemical and other waste management activities. These data are reported to the EPA annually by certain groups of industry and federal facilities, and made available to the public through this interface.
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