A System for Standardizing and Combining U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Emissions and Waste Inventory Data.

ABSTRACT: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) provides databases that agglomerate data provided by companies or states reporting emissions, releases, wastes generated, and other activities to meet statutory requirements. These databases, often referred to as inventories, can be used for a wide variety of environmental reporting and modeling purposes to characterize conditions in the United States. Yet, users are often challenged to find, retrieve, and interpret these data due to the unique schemes employed for data management, which could result in erroneous estimations or double-counting of emissions. To address these challenges, a system called Standardized Emission and Waste Inventories (StEWI) has been created. The system consists of four python modules that provide rapid access to

SUBMITTER: Young B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9175305 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature