Where You Live Use the geographical selections bar above the map to show the disposal and other releases of Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) chemicals that occurred throughout the United States during 2019. Legend Data to Display: [ * Basemap ~ Total Releases Show map by: ® States O Metropolitan Areas O Watersheds O Tribal Search: State: [Select... V~| or Zip Code: | ] City: |(Optional) | County: |(Qptional) o MEXICO Guadalajara Havana o CUB A Click on any one of the loca tions on the map to see detailed information. View Larger Map In addition to viewing maps based on release quantities, you can also view maps based on risk- screening scores, which are estimates of potential human health risk generated by EPA's Risk- Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) model. These unitless scores represent relative human health risk from chronic exposures to TRI chemical releases and allow one to compare potential for risk across locations. For more on RSEI, see the Hazard and Potential Risk of TRI Chemicals section. ------- TRI Data Considerations As with any dataset, there are several factors to consider when using the TRI data. Key factors associated with data used in the National Analysis are summarized in the Introduction. For more information see Factors to Consider When Using Toxics Release Inventory Data. ------- States and Metropolitan Areas ForTRI purposes, "states" includes all U.S. territories. For 2019, facilities located in all 56 states and territories reported to the TRI Program. Texas, Ohio, and California had the most facilities that reported to TRI, and together accounted for 20% of the total number of facilities that reported for 2019. More than 80% of the United States' population and many of the industrial and federal facilities that report to the TRI Program are located in urban areas. "Metropolitan statistical areas" and "micropolitan statistical areas" in the United States are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of one or more socially and economically integrated adjacent counties, cities, or towns. Total Disposal or Other Releases in the 10 Most Populous MS As, 2019 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,00010,000 Pounds perSq. Mile ------- Watersheds A watershed is the land area that drains to a common waterway. Rivers, lakes, estuaries, wetlands, streams, and oceans are catch basins for the land adjacent to them. Ground water aquifers are replenished by water flowing through the land area above them. Large aquatic ecosystems (LAEs) comprise multiple small watersheds and water resources within a large geographic area. Currently, EPA defines 10 LAEs. More than 6,000 TRI facilities are located in these LAEs. The chart below shows the portion of TRI chemical releases within each LAE that were released to air, water, or land, or transferred for disposal off site. Discharges of chemicals to water, as well as releases to air, releases to land, and land disposal, can all affect living resources within an aquatic ecosystem. For example, some chemicals can persist in the environment and accumulate in the tissues of fish and other wildlife. A few chemicals can become more concentrated as predators farther up the food chain eat these organisms, which may ultimately cause health problems for wildlife and humans. TRI Disposal or Other Releases within Large Aquatic Ecosystems, 2019 Air ¦ Water ¦ Land Total Off-site Disposal or Other Releases Gulf of Mexico (318 million pounds) Great Lakes (199 million pounds) Columbia River Basin (105 million pounds) Chesapeake Bay (35.1 million pounds) San Francisco Bay Delta (24.6 million pounds) Puget Sound - Georgia Basin (9.99 million pounds) Long Island Sound (4.07 million pounds) South Florida (1.05 million pounds) Lake Champlain Basin (676 thousand pounds) Pacific Islands (503 thousand pounds) III 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% Percent of Total 100% The chart below shows TRI chemical releases per square mile for each LAE. Releases per square mile are greatest in the Gulf of Mexico watershed in the southeastern US, where many ------- chemical manufacturing facilities are located. Almost half of the TRI releases from chemical manufacturing facilities in the US are from facilities located in the Gulf of Mexico watershed. Total Disposal or Other Releases within Large Aquatic Ecosystems per Square Mile, 2019 Gulf of Mexico Great Lakes Pacific Islands Puget Sound - Georgia Basin Chesapeake Bay Columbia River Basin San Francisco Bay Delta Long Island Sound Lake Champlain Basin South Florida 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 Pounds perSq. Mile - - F ¦ ------- Tribal Communities Under EPA policy, the Agency works with federally recognized tribes on a government-to- government basis to protect the land, air, and water in Indian.cou.nt17 and Alaska Native villages and to support tribal assumption of program authority. Facilities located in Indian country that meet TRI reporting requirements must indicate the appropriate three-digit Bureau of Indian Affairs fBIAl tribal code on annual TRI reporting forms. These codes tell the EPA on which tribal land the facility is located. In 2019, there were 40 facilities located in the Indian country of 17 different federally recognized tribes that reported to TRI. These facilities collectively managed nearly 25 million pounds of production-related waste, 7.4 million pounds of which was disposed of or otherwise released. Of the releases reported, 99.7% were released on site; 92% of these were on-site disposal to land from electric utilities and metal mining facilities. These facilities primarily released metal compounds such as lead, barium, and copper. Lead and copper are often present in the mineral ore disposed of by metal mines, and barium is present in coal and oil combusted at electric utilities. The table below provides more details about various types of releases and other waste management reported by facilities on federally recognized tribal lands. Quick Facts for 2019: Facilities on Tribal Lands Measure Value Number of Facilities that Reported to TRI 40 Number of Tribes with TRI Facilities on Their Lands 17 Production-Related Waste Managed 24.59 million lb Recycling 9.00 million lb Energy Recovery 0.13 million lb Treatment 8.08 million lb Disposal or Other Releases 7.38 million lb Total Disposal or Other Releases 7.38 million lb On-site 7.36 million lb Air 0.62 million lb Water 1.10 thousand lb Land 6.74 million lb Off-site 0.02 million lb ------- The Tribal Communities Dashboard makes it easy to explore information about releases of TRI chemicals from facilities on or near tribal lands. An example of the type of TRI information in the Tribal Communities Dashboard is shown in the interactive chart below. Use the buttons in the top row to filter the data by industry sector, chemical, and/or tribe. Change the data displayed in the pie chart below using the blue dropdown button on the left. Select an Industry Sector Select a Chemical Select charts from this menu - Clear Selections Total Releases on Tribal Lands, 2019 Total Releases for 17 Tribes: 7,382,632 lbs Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Re... Ute Indian Tribe of the Ui... Navajo Nation, Arizona, N... Tohono O'odham Nati... I Confederated Tribes a... I Navajo Nation, Arizon... I Puyallup Tribe of the P... I Tohono O'odham Nati... Ute Indian Tribe of the... I Others The interactive table below lists the federally recognized tribes that had at least one TRI- reporting facility on their lands, along with the total releases reported by facilities, the number of facilities, and the number of chemicals reported. Click on a column header to change how the table is sorted. ------- Total Disposal or Other Releases on Tribal Lands by Tribe, 2019 Tribes in 2819, Sorted by Releases and Number of Facilities This tabl e is interactive - click the column headers to change the sorting of the table- Tribe Total Releases (lbs) Number of Facilities Fact Sheet Totals 7,38^.632 40 Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona 3,824,068 1 Link Navajo Nation, Arizona. New Mexico & Utah 1.965.189 2 Link Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah 1.083.652 1 Link Puyallup Tribe of the Puyailup Reservation 217.710 9 Link Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation 140.259 3 Link Coeur DAJene Tribe 115.158 2 Link Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians 29.083 1 Link Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan 3,488 1 Link Arapano Tribe of the Wind Rver Reservation, Wyoming 1.611 1 Link Onei da Trioe of Indians of Wisconsin 1.086 4 Link Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Anzona and California 607 1 Link Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation. Arizona 378 8 Link Sait River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona 306 1 Link Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma 25 2 Link Tula!ip Tribes of Washington 10 1 Link SuquamisT Indian Tribe of the Pet Madison Reservation 2 1 Link Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Rincon Reservation. California 0 1 Link Additional resources for tribes are available on the TRI for Tribal Communities weboaae. including more detailed analyses of TRI data, links to other online tools, and contact information for EPA's Tribal Program Managers. ------- |