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CDC Health Data (WONDER)
transportation-emissionsby CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
Nearly 20 collections of public-use data for topics including U.S. births, deaths, environmental exposures, and population estimates primarily on compiled annually, as granular as county-level
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Global Alert - Floating Trash
ocean-plasticsby OCEAN RECOVERY ALLIANCE
Online tool that increases interaction and connectivity to plastic pollution by allowing users to report, rate and map trash hot-spots in their waterways and coastlines via mobile devices and a web-based platform
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AirNow
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Current and forecast air quality maps and data for more than 500 cities across the U.S. available through map view showing U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI), a color-coded index designed to communicate whether air quality is healthy or unhealthy for you
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The Magic School Bus Gets Cleaned Up
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
EPA, in collaboration with Scholastic, has created a new book, "The Magic School Bus Gets Cleaned Up," which teaches readers about pollution emitted from diesel school buses as well as ways to reduce emissions health risks.
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Idle-Free Schools Toolkit for a Healthy School Environment
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Information needed to run an effective idling reduction campaign at a school to reduce student exposure to toxic vehicle exhaust. This includes student-run science or community involvement projects, which offer students an opportunity to run a public service campaign while expanding their science and math skills
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National Port Strategy Assessment: Reducing Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases at U.S. Ports
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
National scale assessment to examine current and future emissions from a variety of diesel sources operating in port areas, explore a range of available strategies to reduce emissions, provide an assessment tool, and inform priorities and decisions for port areas
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Earth Challenge 2020 Plastics Mobile Widget Data
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
Data from Earth Challenge 2020 Plastics mobile widget. Allows anyone to take a picture of plastic pollution anywhere its found wherever they are in the world.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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Aluminum Association Industry Statistics
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by THE ALUMINUM ASSOCIATION
Annual and monthly reports with statistics and business information on the North American aluminum industry
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Source Data: Marine Litter Watch
ocean-plasticsby EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Provides a map of beach litter data collection events organised by MLW communities, as well as overview graphs and tables
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Steel Industry Data
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by STEEL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
Monthly and annual shipment and production data on the national steel industry
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Integrated Data: Marine Litter Watch
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
A cleaned, curated and integrated global plastics pollution dataset sourced from the European Environmental Agencies Marine Litter Watch (MLW) dataset. This data is one of the three datasets used in the Earth Challenge 2020 Integrated Oceans Plastics Dataset.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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Automotive Trends Data
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
National data on CO2 emissions and fuel economy based on production volumes delivered for sale in the U.S. by model year, from 1975-2019
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Recommendations for Constructing Roadside Vegetation Barriers to Improve Near road Air quality
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Summarizes research findings on best practices for building roadside vegetative barriers to improve air quality
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U.S. Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI)
transportation-emissionsby CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
124 indicators including asthma deaths and prevention that allow states, territories and large metropolitan areas to uniformly define, collect, and report chronic disease data
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Learning and Teaching about the Environment Web Resource
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Provides K-12 students and educators with access to quality homework resources, lesson plans and project ideas for learning and teaching about the environment
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U.S. State and Local Waste and Materials Characterization Reports
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
links to state and local waste characterization studies, including information on municipal solid waste (MSW) generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery and landfilling
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Earth Challenge: Citizen Science Cloud: Plastics Page
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
The Citizen Science Cloud is a place where anyone can share and access open, interoperable, citizen science data and related applications and leverages the power of GIS. On the CS Cloud, you can expect to find citizen science data on various focus areas including information on ocean plastics datasets.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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Glass Recycling: End Markets, MRFs, and Drop-off Facilities
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by GLASS RECYCLING COALITION
Allows users to search by location to find the nearest material recovery facility (MRF), glass processor, end-market or large city drop-off locations that accept glass
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Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition (BenMAP-CE)
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Software that estimates the health impacts and economic value of changes in air quality (specifically ground level ozone and fine particles)
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Reducing School Bus Idling: Clean Air Poster
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
A poster from the EPA's Clean School Bus Program explaining how reducing idling results in cleaner air
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Earth Challenge: Citizen Science Cloud Data Portal
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
The Citizen Science Cloud Data Portal is a developer-friendly portal to explore datasets from various citizen science projects. These data sets have been transformed and aligned to our common data schema and are interoperable with one another.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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Air Pollutant Emissions Trends Data
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
National and state-level trends for Tier 1 pollutant emission contributions among major source types from 1970 - 2019
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National Environmental Public Health Tracking
transportation-emissionsby CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
Local, state, and national level data and information on the environment, exposures, health effects and population characteristics
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Source Data: TIDES Coastal Cleanup
ocean-plasticsby OCEAN CONSERVANCY
Public data system containing the world's largest ocean trash dataset, all collected by volunteers that allows viewers to see ocean trash data at a global scale or even zoom into their local beach. Easily download reports available for any country, state, region or location
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National Emissions Inventory (NEI)
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Comprehensive and detailed estimate of air emissions of criteria pollutants, criteria precursors, and hazardous air pollutants from air emissions sources collected by State, Local, and Tribal air agencies and blended with other data sources
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500 Cities: Local Data for Better Health, 2019 release
transportation-emissionsby CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
City and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States
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Coloring Book titled Carl Gets Some Rest
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
For children in pre-school through 2nd grade, teaches a simple lesson – that there are many transportation alternatives to using a car
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Freight Analysis Framework
transportation-emissionsby U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation
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Annual Mineral Commodity Summaries
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Manufacturing industry data on the use of virgin (primary) and recycled (secondary) materials in the U.S. for several dozen minerals published anually as far back as 1996
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Integrated Data: Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Project
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
A cleaned, curated and integrated global plastics pollution dataset sourced from the National Atmospheric Administrations Marine Debris Monitoring and Assesment Project (MDMAP) accumulation report. This data is one of the three datasets used in the Earth Challenge 2020 Integrated Oceans Plastics Dataset.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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NAIP public image service
enabling-naip-databy U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Imagery data from the agricultural growing seasons. Includes ArcGIS Rest Services URL for the public facing, most current year 1-meter or higher resolution 4-band NAIP cached image services for the lower 48 states. The service is served out as pre-rendered tiles with 18 levels of detail which is equivalent to about 1.19 meters resolution at the largest scale
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Map of Commingled Residential MRFs in the United States
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP
Map of Commingled Residential MRFs nationwide, which are facilities that accept recyclables separated from trash and then brought in for processing as either single stream or dual stream materials to be sorted into individual commodities and sold to market
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Facts and Figures about Materials, Waste and Recycling
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Annual data on national waste generation and recycling rates for the overall municipal solid waste stream and for a number of specific materials. Most recent year is 2017
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Integrated Data: TIDES Coastal Clean Up
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
A cleaned, curated and integrated global plastics pollution dataset sourced from Ocean Conservancy's TIDES dataset. This data is one of the three datasets used in the Earth Challenge 2020 Integrated Oceans Plastics Dataset.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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Earth Challenge: Top 10 Most Common Plastics By Country Data
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
Top 10 Most Common Plastics found by county sourced from the Earth Challenge 2020 Interoperable Oceans Plastics Data. The Earth Challenge 2020 team has combined all available data from the National Atmospheric Administrations Marine Debris Monitoring and Assesment Project (MDMAP) accumulation report, Ocean Convervancy's TIDES Coastal Clean Up data, and the European Environmental Agencies Marine Litter Watch (MLW) data sets. This has been further cleaned to categorize the top 10 most common plastics found by country. Data was collected from 2015 -2018.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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Earth Challenge: Integrated Ocean Plastics Data
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
A cleaned, curated and interoperable global plastics pollution dataset.The Earth Challenge team has combined all available data from the National Atmospheric Administrations Marine Debris Monitoring and Assesment Project (MDMAP) accumulation report, Ocean Convervancy's TIDES Coastal Clean Up data, and the European Environmental Agencies Marine Litter Watch (MLW) data sets. All datasets were mapped to a common schema and quality control methods were implemented for ease of re-use. Data was collected from 2015 -2018.
There are mutiple links associated with this data set. Please refer to the list below:
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Asthma Surveillance Data
transportation-emissionsby CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
Collection of asthma data at both the national and the state level
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Source Data: Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Project
ocean-plasticsby NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Shoreline marine debris surveys completed by partner organizations and volunteers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Program (MDMAP), this data follows strict Q/A Q/C protocols including transect monitoring.
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API & Developer Resources for Census Bureau Data
opportunity-zones talent-discovery career-pathways entrepreneurship rural-development transportation-emissionsby U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
Software developer resources for Census Bureau Data.
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USGS National Map
enabling-naip-databy U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Suite of products and services that provide access to base geospatial information to describe the landscape of the United States and its territories including boundaries, elevation, geographic names, hydrography, land cover, orthoimagery, structures, and transportation
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Can Manufacturers Institute Statistics
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by CAN MANUFACTURERS INSTITUTE
Annual historical data regarding domestic can shipments including detailed statistics, broken down by market, product, material used and technology.
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Recycling Commodities
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by INSTITUTE OF SCRAP RECYCLING INDUSTRIES
Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on overall and materials-specific recycling industry economics
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The Business of Chemistry By the Numbers
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL
2019 report that includes financial performance, trade, capital investments in the chemistry industry
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Federal Geo-platform
enabling-naip-databy FEDERAL GEOGRAPHIC DATA COMMITTEE
Data.gov for geospatial data from a variety of federal agencies on topics including climate & weather, elevation, geology, land use and cover, utilities and others
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Buyers and Sellers Information
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC RECYCLERS
Complete directory of materials that Association of Plastic Recyclers (ARP) Members purchase and sell, as well as services (grinding, densifying, washing, pelletizing, compounding and solid stating) provided by APR members
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OpenDataPhilly
transportation-emissionsby OPENDATAPHILLY
Philadelphia local transportation data, including on walkability scores, bike networks, airport runways, traffic counts, air monitoring stations, etc.
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Recycling Economic Information (REI) Report
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Data on the recycling industry workforce
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Glass Resource Locator
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by GLASS PACKAGING INSTITUTE
Lists of companies that distribute and sell glass materials
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EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental indicators including 6 measures of air quality with 6 demographic demographic indicators
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Our World In Data
ocean-plasticsby OUR WORLD IN DATA
Collection of plastics pollution data, including decomposition rates of marine debris items, global river plastic input to the ocean by region, plastic waste generated by coastal populations etc.
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Recycling Market Development Platform
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by MORE RECYCLING
Includes data and trends on plastic, glass, metal and fiber recycling, as well as links to tools that support the recycling value chain
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Recycling Demand Mapping in the Southeast
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by SOUTHEAST RECYCLING DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Map of recycling opportunities in the Southeast United States
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Ports Primer for Communities: An Overview of Ports Planning and Operations to Support Community Participation
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Information on the role of ports, how ports can impact local land use, economic trends, air quality and other aspects of the enivonment and quality of life
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Earth Challenge: Open Data Documentation
ocean-plasticsby EARTH CHALLENGE
Earth Challenge is a global citizen science effort. Earth Challenge spans over 6 research topics and offers APIs to source data and curated Interoperable through the Kinetica platform.
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Green Vehicle Guide
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Gives information about the environmental performance of light-duty vehicles using 0-10 emissions score and the fuel economy numbers to compare environmental performance across vehicle classes
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Plastics Data
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by PLASTICS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
Industry data including global trends, plastics quarterly forecasts, monthly plastics production and capacity utilization statistics
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Best Practices for Reducing Near-Road Pollution Exposure at Schools
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Information for school communities to identify strategies for reducing traffic-related pollution exposure at schools located downwind of heavily traveled roadways
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Aluminum Association Buyers' Guide
recycled-materials recycled-materials-2by THE ALUMINUM ASSOCIATION
A tool used to search for products, services, and vendors within the aluminum industry
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Local Area Transportation Characteristics for Households Data
transportation-emissionsby U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Estimates of average weekday household person trips, vehicle trips, person miles traveled, and vehicle miles traveled (per day), for all Census tracts for the year 2017
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AirNow API for Developers
transportation-emissionsby U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Current and forecast air quality maps and data for more than 500 cities across the U.S. with U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI), available through API
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Traffic Volume Trends
transportation-emissionsby U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Monthly data based on hourly traffic count data reported by States, collected at approximately 5,000 continuous traffic counting locations
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NAIP public image dates
enabling-naip-databy U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
ArcGIS Rest Service URL for vector services that include information about the NAIP collection 2011-2017. Date indexes are state based and contain polygon information used in the collection of the imagery, including acquisition date, camera type, sensor or lens serial number, and the electromagnetic spectrum range for the red, blue, green, and near infrared bands.