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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (DOE)
  • Top Ten has data and reports on carbon dioxide emissions, its effects on vegetation, weather, clouds, and oceans
  • Link at bottom of the World Data Center indexes reports with detailed historical data on carbon dioxide emissions in ASCII and graph format
  • Example includes yearly carbon dioxide emissions in China, 1899-1996
Census of Waste Management and Remediation Services
  • First reports monitoring sales under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 56)in 1997
  • Geographic Area Series
    • Number of establishments, employment, payrolls, and receipts sales for business support organizations
    • Includes employment agencies, carpet cleaning, travel reservations, pest control, locksmiths, hazardous waste disposal, recycling, telephone call centers
Center for Watershed Protection
  • Technical tools and publications on managing small watersheds
  • Land conservation, aquatic buffers, erosion and sediment control, rainwater runoff
Chemical Scorecard (Environmental Defense Fund)
  • Ranks states, counties, zip codes, and facilities by pounds of pollution
  • Can be customized by type of pollution (air, water, ground)
  • Data manipulated from the Toxic Release Inventory (EPA)
Cleaning Up the Nuclear Weapons Complex
  • Federal and research institution web sites about cleaning up nuclear weapons complex in an environmentally and economically safe manner
  • Includes think tank reports
  • Good annotations
Climate Change Impacts on the United States
  • Full text of report found under Overview
  • PDF only; divided into chapters, some about 2 MB
  • Dated 2004
Climate Research Center (University of East Anglia)
  • Known for its historic data on climate change
  • Average world temperatures, 1856-2000 in zip format
  • Data for world as a whole
Consortium for Intl. Earth Science Information
  • CIESIN gateway to statistical data servers on human interactions in global environmental change
  • Also includes mapping and demographic data
  • Access to Census Public Use Microdata Samples and Current Population Surveys are included in a separate datasets gateway
Data.Gov
  • Pan-government web site for microdata (raw, uncalculated data) produced by the major statistical-producing agencies
  • Searchable by keyword and/or category, agency, and file type (xml, csv, kml/kmz, esri, and other)
  • As of June 2009, this is a fledgling web site with 204 data files, primarily from the Environmental Protection Agency and Internal Revenue Service; expansion expected
Earth Platform
  • Environmental search engine to news reports and web sites
  • Subjects include nature, animals, energy, pollution
  • Section devoted to Global Warming
  • Organizations represented include government agencies, non-profits, and business

 
 
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