SMART SECTORS
A PROGRAM OF U.S. EPA
Making Environmental and Economic Data More Accessible
SECTOR SNAPSHOTS
What are the Sector Snapshots?
EPA is releasing a series of sector snapshots that provide baseline environmental and economic performance data
for industry sectors participating in EPA's Smart Sectors program. Each snapshot is designed to help the general
public, EPA, and sector partners gain a common understanding of sector performance to inform environmental
improvement strategies going forward.
Why Did EPA Develop the Sector Snapshots?
EPA and other federal agencies collect and make available to the public large volumes of environmental and
economic data. Electronic data often reside in disparate locations, sometimes within an agency and sometimes
at different agencies. The sector snapshots assemble data from different publicly-available sources to provide an
integrated, easy-to-understand, high-level picture for each sector.
What Data are Presented?
Most sector snapshots display data for total air emissions, criteria air pollutants, water discharges, releases to
land, and hazardous waste generation. However, each set of indicators is tailored based on data availability and
relevance to the sectors operations. The economic benchmarks available include dollar value of output and
employment, and for some sectors, an indicator for production applicable to the sector.
UTILITIES &
POWER GENERATION
SMART SECTORS
Total Air Emissions
¦ and an economic benchmark.
Dollar value of gross output
Employment
Net electricity generated
IRON & STEEL
1$3SZj SMART SECTORS
Pounds of Water Discharges per $1,000 of Goods Produced
Environmental Performance Indicators	Economic Benchmarks
Air emissions Production-related waste managed	H Dollar value of goods produced
Criteria air pollutants Recycling of waste chemicals	Employment
Energy use Releases to land	Produced goods (in millions of tons)
Greenhouse gases Volume of recycled goods
Hazardous waste generation | Water discharges	Show recessions
Show economic events
One environmental indicator
Environmental and economic indicator combined
#EPASmartSectors
September 2018
epa.gov/smartsectors

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