• Distance: Indicates the distance between the facility and your selected location.
• Releases: A "release" refers to different ways that toxic chemicals from industrial facilities enter the air, water, and land. Releases include spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment.
• Waste Managed: The sum of all non-accidental chemical waste generated at a facility, including on-site releases, on-site waste management (recycling, treatment, and combustion for energy recovery), and off-site transfers for disposal, treatment, recycling, or energy recovery.
• RSEI: EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) is a screening-level modeling tool that uses TRI air and water data to help communities, researchers and policy makers establish priorities for further investigation regarding potential health-related impacts from toxic industrial releases (get more information about RSEI and using the results).
• RSEI Hazard: A unitless value that accounts for the size of the chemical release and the chemical's toxicity. It is calculated as a toxicity weight multiplied by the released quantity reported to TRI. RSEI Hazard values are only meaningful in comparision to other RSEI Hazard values. A RSEI Hazard that is 10 times higher than another RSEI Hazard suggests that the relative potential for harm is 10 times greater.
• Pollution Prevention Activities: The number of source reduction activities reported by facilities, which are activities that eliminate or reduce the generation of chemical waste.
• Number of TRI Reporting Forms: The number of individual TRI reporting forms submitted by facilities (includes Form R and Form A submissions).
• Most Recent Reporting Year: The most recent reporting year where the facility submitted at least one TRI reporting form (the earliest year included in TRI Toxics Tracker is 2014, and the most recent year is 2023).