To account for the amount of chemicals released into the environment, the Toxicity of Air Releases variable was selected to evaluate facilities because specific toxic releases can have significant environmental and public health effects, especially if they are released in extremely large quantities. This variable includes on- and off-site releases from production to air. It excludes toxic releases due to catastrophic, one-time events so that toxic releases related to facility production processes are only considered.
More information on this variable can be found in our report.
Database: TRI.NET