Sector: Industrial
Website providing links to three examples of Michigan city ordinances for open burning.
Climate TRACE is a global emissions tracking initiative and online platform that uses satellite observations, remote sensing, and other independent data—combined with AI and machine learning—to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from specific countries, sectors, and large facilities in near real time. It provides publicly accessible maps, dashboards, and downloadable data that let users see where emissions are coming from, how they change over time, and how reported inventories compare to independent estimates, supporting greater transparency and accountability in climate action.
EPA’s Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system is an open-source, regional air quality model used to simulate how pollutants such as ozone, PM2.5, and air toxics form and move in the atmosphere. It combines detailed atmospheric chemistry, emissions, and meteorology to estimate pollutant concentrations and deposition over time and space. The CMAQ website provides the model code, documentation, tutorials, input datasets, and example applications, supporting researchers and agencies in evaluating air quality policies, health and ecosystem impacts, and interactions between air quality and climate.
EPA’s greenhouse gas data portal at ghgdata.epa.gov (the FLIGHT tool) is an interactive website that lets users explore facility-level greenhouse gas emissions reported under EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. It provides maps, tables, and charts showing emissions by facility, industry sector, gas, location, and year, and allows filtering by state or county, source category, emission thresholds, and gas type. Users—such as policymakers, researchers, advocates, and companies—can quickly identify major emitters, compare facilities, examine trends over time, and download customized datasets for further analysis.
The toxic flooding vulnerability map is an interactive tool that ranks and visualizes how vulnerable petrochemical facilities and nearby communities in the Galveston Bay region are to toxic flooding. Built from more than 100 indicators across flood risk, chemical transport, facility hazards, ecosystem conditions, baseline health, and social and economic factors, it produces separate vulnerability scores for facilities and for community grid cells. Users—such as planners, engineers, policymakers, and Gulf Coast residents—can explore overall vulnerability, drill down to see which specific indicators drive risk in each location, identify high?priority facilities and neighborhoods, and use downloadable profiles and map layers to help target nature?based solutions that reduce both flooding and chemical exposure.
NOAA’s HYSPLIT (Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) website provides access to a powerful atmospheric transport and dispersion model used to simulate how airborne pollutants, smoke, dust, volcanic ash, and other particles move and spread in the atmosphere. The site offers model documentation, tutorial materials, downloadable desktop software, and online web-based tools that let users calculate air parcel trajectories, dispersion, and deposition patterns based on meteorological data. It is widely used for air quality studies, emergency response, and research on long-range transport of contaminants.
Website providing information on state, Tribal, and federal implementation plans. Information included on approved state regulations, source specific requirements, and nonregulatory provisions.
Website providing downloads of two databases: a control measures reference library which provides information on control technologies for a variety of source categories, and a menu of control measures which provides information on existing emission reduction measures including efficiency and cost-effectiveness for large point sources and some nonpoint sources.
Website providing detailed information on Maricopa County, Arizona Emission Reduction Credit Program, which allows sources to offset emissions in nonattainment areas throughout Maricopa County. Emissions credits are generated by creating permanent emission reductions, and can be bought, sold, or traded between companies.
Report providing evidence-based guidance to inform local actions to reduce air pollution and its impacts on health. Includes interventions to address mobile sources, buildings, industrial sources, agriculture, and individual behavior.
