cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, Toxic chemical releases by county (EPA Toxics Release Inventory), 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23964168. Source: Probative, Toxic chemical releases by county (EPA Toxics Release Inventory), version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23964168, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Toxic chemical releases by county (EPA Toxics Release Inventory)"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-04
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23964168
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/toxic-releases/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "Toxic chemicals that industrial and federal facilities reported releasing on site to the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) in reporting year 2024, for 2,437 counties with a reporting facility, 56 states and territories and the US: 21,482 facilities and 2,842,308,160 pounds in all (530,322,130 to air, 188,664,266 to water, 2,123,321,764 to land), with the pounds of known or suspected carcinogens, PFAS, ethylene oxide, benzene and lead, and the on-site total of each of the earlier years kept (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). State records list the three largest parent companies. Counties carry the Census FIPS code. Dioxin-like compounds, which facilities report in grams, are converted to pounds. TRI counts reported releases by listed chemicals from covered facilities; it is not a measure of exposure or of harm."
keywords:
  - "toxic releases by county"
  - "EPA TRI releases by county"
  - "Toxics Release Inventory county data"
  - "PFAS releases by county"
  - "carcinogen releases by county"
  - "toxic exposure lawyer market data"