Natural Environment

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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:

• Plastics Mobile Widget Data

• Data Dictionary

Annual and monthly reports with statistics and business information on the North American aluminum industry

Provides a map of beach litter data collection events organised by MLW communities, as well as overview graphs and tables

Monthly and annual shipment and production data on the national steel industry

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:

• Integrated MLW Data

• All Integrated Data

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

Summarizes research findings on best practices for building roadside vegetative barriers to improve air quality

124 indicators including asthma deaths and prevention that allow states, territories and large metropolitan areas to uniformly define, collect, and report chronic disease data

Provides K-12 students and educators with access to quality homework resources, lesson plans and project ideas for learning and teaching about the environment

links to state and local waste characterization studies, including information on municipal solid waste (MSW) generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery and landfilling

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:

• Citizen Science Cloud

• Citizen Science Cloud, Plastics Dataset Page

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

Software that estimates the health impacts and economic value of changes in air quality (specifically ground level ozone and fine particles)

A poster from the EPA's Clean School Bus Program explaining how reducing idling results in cleaner air

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:

• Citizen Science Cloud Data Portal

• Citizen Science Cloud Data Portal Datasets Page

• Documentation Page and Data Schema

National and state-level trends for Tier 1 pollutant emission contributions among major source types from 1970 - 2019

Local, state, and national level data and information on the environment, exposures, health effects and population characteristics

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

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

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

For children in pre-school through 2nd grade, teaches a simple lesson – that there are many transportation alternatives to using a car

Comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation

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

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:

• Integrated Dataset

• Meta Data Dictionary

• Visualization

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

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

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

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:

• Integrated TIDES Data

• All Integrated Data

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:

• Top 10 Plastics Most Common Plastics by Country Data

• Meta Data Dictionary

• Visualization

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:

• Integrated Dataset

• Meta Data Dictionary

• Visualization

Collection of asthma data at both the national and the state level

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.

Software developer resources for Census Bureau Data.

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

Annual historical data regarding domestic can shipments including detailed statistics, broken down by market, product, material used and technology.

Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on overall and materials-specific recycling industry economics

2019 report that includes financial performance, trade, capital investments in the chemistry industry

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

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

Philadelphia local transportation data, including on walkability scores, bike networks, airport runways, traffic counts, air monitoring stations, etc.

Data on the recycling industry workforce

Lists of companies that distribute and sell glass materials

Nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental indicators including 6 measures of air quality with 6 demographic demographic indicators

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.

Includes data and trends on plastic, glass, metal and fiber recycling, as well as links to tools that support the recycling value chain

Map of recycling opportunities in the Southeast United States

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

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.

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

Industry data including global trends, plastics quarterly forecasts, monthly plastics production and capacity utilization statistics

Information for school communities to identify strategies for reducing traffic-related pollution exposure at schools located downwind of heavily traveled roadways

A tool used to search for products, services, and vendors within the aluminum industry

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

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

Monthly data based on hourly traffic count data reported by States, collected at approximately 5,000 continuous traffic counting locations

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.