This library showcases several initiatives supported by Material Research L3C. To learn more about us, please visit our main website. Our mission is to fill gaps in understanding - specifically around harmful and toxic industries. Our long term initiatives support this mission. All of the resources below give intel into the question: What is going on at that facility? See below to access our developed tools and collaborative partnerships that provide open access information on toxic industry. These tools are exploratory in nature and serve to inform the development of FencelineData.org. If you are interested in learning more about how to use these systems, why we created them, or are interested in adding facilities or datasets to these tools, please reach out to us at ssillari@materialresearch.org.
The Toxic Industries Database preserves disappearing information and makes it readily accessible and downloadable. The tool makes it easy to query and filter three US EPA datasets: Chemical Data Reporting, Risk Management Plans, and Toxic Release Inventory. Facilities in the Toxic Industries Database, so far, are limited to the United States and are those that report to one or more of the three EPA datasets listed above.
Enter Database →An ongoing service that provides information about toxic chemical production facilities worldwide. Facilities in the index include those that store, use, produce, or release toxic materials. Currently, The Atlas of Toxic Industries geo-locates more than a thousand toxic facilities and provides supplementary resources about the facilities. The Atlas highlights facilities researched and investigated by Material Research L3C, in collaboration with partner organizations, over the past seven years.
The Chemical Incident Tracker is maintained by Material Research in support of the Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters. Our team tracks chemical incidents view news reports, and routinely brings this information into the tracker.
The FencelineData collaborative is committed to making environmental data accessible and easy to interpret. Material Research is one of four partner organizations that comprise the collaborative; our partners also include Public Health Watch, DataKind, and UntilJustice Data Partners. The collaborative has released a tool that harmonizes EPA data from multiple sources (Toxic Release Inventory Data, environmental regulation data from Enforcement and Compliance History Online, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data, and Chemical Health Hazard information). With this tool, you may locate facilities close to where you live, work, and gather and learn about what chemicals they release, how much, what their hazards are, who owns the facility, what their violations are, and more.