GHGRP Demographic Data Highlights

This dashboard provides information about facilities which reported to the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) in 2020 and their neighboring communities. Please note the following:

Not all facilities within a particular industry may be represented.
Some GHGRP sectors include a reporting threshold of ≥25,000 metric tons of CO₂e.
Oil and Gas activity reported under the Onshore Production, Gathering and Boosting, Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline, and Natural Gas Distribution industry segments cannot be resolved to discrete geographic locations and is not included in this resource.
Facility totals in this dashboard reflect all facilities which have latitude/longitude information and demographic data. The totals may differ from those in FLIGHT and other GHGRP data sets.
The charts in this dashboard include information on key demographic indicators for communities living within three miles of each GHGRP facility using census data drawn from EPA's EJSCREEN.

Although GHG emissions reported to the EPA by GHGRP facilities are global pollutants, many GHGRP facilities also release other pollutants that have a more direct and local impact in the surrounding communities. For example, power plants which report GHG emissions to the GHGRP may also release emissions of other pollutants such as particulate matter.

Each chart included in this dashboard offers a different way to view and understand the demographics of communities living near GHGRP facilities, as well as options for selecting a specific industry sector or demographic indicator.

For more information on sector-specific definitions and emissions data, please visit GHGRP's Sector Data Highlights.

For more information on interpreting these charts, please visit the Clean Air Market Division's "Power Plants and Neighboring Communities."

For more information on climate change and impacted communities, please review EPA's new report, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts.

This graph displays the number of facilities located in or near communities which meet or exceed the 80^th percentile nationally for each key demographic indicator. You can explore the distribution of all facilities for a particular demographic indicator by selecting the label or bar for the indicator.

This graph compares the key demographics of communities near facilities in your selected sector to the national average. The national average for each demographic based on all Census block groups is shown in parentheses.

The map below displays the percentage of facilities in the selected sector within each state that are in communities which are at or exceed the 80^th percentile nationally for the selected demopgrahic indicator. Click on a state to explore state-level data.

The following map shows the locations of facilities in the selected sector, with the color gradient indicating the percentile value for each facility for the selected demographic indicator.