Steel mill emissions map for the US
There’s a very useful Google Maps mashup from MapEcos that uses emissions data from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (which has been gathering industrial emissions data from industrial facilities since 1988). You will be asked to enter a name and a zip code on the landing page link above. You can do so or just hit skip it and go to the map. Once the map has booted, enter 3312 in the second search box for the SIC code for steel. All steel facilities in the database will populate the map. Zoom in on any region and then one of the map markers and the TRI data for each facility (along with other information) will show up in the marker’s callout balloon in a series of tabs along the top of the callout.
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