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[The Community Word] Cat, Ameren, ADM among Toxic 100 air polluters | The Community Word: The list relies on the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI), which measures the chronic human health risk from industrial toxic releases. The underlying data for RSEI is the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), for which facilities report their own releases of toxic chemicals.

[UU PLANET TV] Part 3 Interview with Jim Boyce on Air Pollution Data: The Unitarian Universalist Committee on Socially Responsible Investing Chair, Sydney Morris, interviews U Mass Professor of Political Economy Jim Boyce at his home in Amherst, MA on September 23, 2009. Part 3 is an explanation of the Toxic Release Index (TRI), and the Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Screening Environmental Index (RSEI).

[Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine] Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine » Toxic neighborhoods in black ...: The RSEI provides toxicity-weighted air pollutant concentration data for industrial facilities that meet several EPA requirements, including using more than 10,000 pounds of at least one of 600 specified toxic chemicals annually. Thus, Downey used GIS and the RSEI to estimate air-pollution concentration values for every census tract in the continental United States.

[The Good Human] The Top 100 Corporate Polluters In The United States. | The Good Human: The index relies on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) project. The starting point for the RSEI is the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which reports on releases of toxic .

[Energy and Environment Monitor] 2008 TRI National Analysis: Comparing the nationally aggregated total toxicity weighted pounds of disposal or other releases using the RSEI cancer toxicity weights to years past shows that for 2007 to 2008 there was an increase of 10% using RSEI cancer toxicity weighted pounds.

[lifewithnature] The world top 15 air polluters: The Political Economy Research Institute has identified the 100 most air polluting companies and industries for 2010.  The index relies in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Screening Indicators (RSEI), which assesses the human health risk from industrial toxic releases.  Not only this research classify the 100 air polluters, but it also identify the percentage of the total population health risk borne by people living below the poverty line or by people in minority racial/ethnic groups. Reducing our personal consumption of products made by those companies in favor of more environmental friendly ones could possibly make a difference in long term air pollution.

[The Baseline Scenario] Pollution, Race, and Poverty « The Baseline Scenario: If this sort of calculus were to rule, then most companies could quite rationally avoid investing in areas where minorities live altogether. I guess that’s an outcome which might suit those who believe that minority issues are the property of the collective, and only government can ever get involved in them while keeping its hands clean, but that reflects a set of assumptions which deserve to be argued rationally instead of just assumed.

[SF Green Machine] The Top 100 Corporate Polluters In The United States.: The index relies on the US Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) project. The starting point for the RSEI is the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which reports on releases of toxic .

[Data Finder Forum] Data Finder Forum » Blog Archive » Welcome to the Data Finder Forum: for Jane Ratcliffe: We searched for ECHO and got one result for Integrated Compliance Information System - National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (ICIS-NPDES): ICIS-NPDES provides information on companies which have been issued permits to discharge waste water into rivers. ICIS-NPDES is gradually replacing the Permit Compliance System (PCS).

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