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What data is expected?

Aggregate data about the emission of air pollutants especially those potentially harmful to human health (although it is not a requirement to include information on green house gas emissions). Aggregate means national-level or more detailed and on an annual basis or better. Standard examples of relevant pollutants would be: carbon monoxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter etc.

What data is available

•   Does the data exist? Yes
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes(as Emissions Inventories are the basis for numerous efforts including trends analysis, regional, and local scale air quality modeling, regulatory impact assessments, and human exposure modeling. published by US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA))
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Is the data machine readable? Yes (CSV, dbf, mdm, wk4, xls, xlw, txt)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Openly licensed? Unsure (No URL given)
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

Additional data can be easily accessed through the Data.gov Energy community at http://Energy.data.gov. The primary datasets with this material are the Toxic Release Inventory, but other datasets provide insight to additional environmental pollutants. Air pollution data exists at the given link. As the data is provided from federal websites and is therefore public domain (at least in the US) we consider it openly licensed.

There was no terms of use of license related to these data, however these are presumed to be in the public domain as is common for these federal agengies. A tweet was sent. The URL provided was for the entire EPA site which did not point to TOU.

I Updated the file formats as there are many more.