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

Ben Young¹, Wesley W Ingwersen², Matthew Bergmann^2,3

¹Eastern Research Group, Inc., Lexington, MA 02421, USA.

Applied Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

|June 10, 2022

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The Standardized Emission and Waste Inventories (StEWI) system simplifies access to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) data. It reduces data duplication, improving environmental reporting and modeling accuracy.

Area of Science:

Environmental Science
Data Management
Environmental Modeling

Background:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) databases aggregate company and state reports on emissions, releases, and waste.
These valuable environmental datasets are difficult to access and interpret due to varied data management schemes.
Challenges include erroneous estimations and double-counting of emissions, hindering accurate environmental characterization.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a system for standardized access and use of USEPA inventory data.
To overcome challenges in retrieving and interpreting complex environmental datasets.
To facilitate accurate environmental reporting, chemical release modeling, and life cycle assessments.

Main Methods:

Development of the Standardized Emission and Waste Inventories (StEWI) system.

Keywords:

EPA data National Emissions Inventory RCRAInfo Toxics Release Inventory biennial hazardous waste report discharge monitoring report eGRID facility registry service greenhouse gas reporting program python substance registry service tool ecosystem

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Implementation of four Python modules for data access, filtering, and combination.

Application of data standardization protocols to reduce duplicate reporting of emissions (e.g., CO2, ammonia).

Main Results:

StEWI provides rapid access to USEPA inventory data in standardized formats.
The system reduces reported emissions of carbon dioxide and ammonia to prevent duplicate reporting, by approximately two- and four-fold, respectively.
StEWI has been successfully utilized in developing the USEEIO model and a baseline electricity life cycle inventory database.

Conclusions:

StEWI significantly enhances the usability of USEPA environmental data.
The system improves the accuracy of environmental reporting and modeling by addressing data inconsistencies.
StEWI is a valuable tool for chemical release and exposure modeling, life cycle assessment, and other environmental applications.