KML Maps: New York's Communities With 50 Largest Hazardous Air Polluters

About New York's Communities With 50 Largest Hazardous Air Polluters ....

Hazardous air pollutants, also known as toxic air pollutants or air toxics, are those 187 air pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects, such as reproductive effects or birth defects, or adverse environmental effects. This interactive map shows the communities that host 50 largest hazardous air polluters based on the 2013 data (most recent available from the DEC). The communities hosting the largest HAP polluters are shown in red, lower on the list are blues. The biggest HAP emitters in the state are Alcoa Massena Operations (West Plant), Eastman Business Park, Reynolds Metals St Lawrence Reduction Plant, Lafarge Building Materials Inc and Morton Salt Inc.

More about Hazardous Air Pollutants: https://www.epa.gov/haps/what-are-hazardous-air-pollutants
Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Title-V-Emissions-Inventory-Beginning-2010/4ry5-tfin/

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Data Sources

New York\'s Communities With 50 Largest Hazardous Air Polluters - You can download the KMZ File used in creation of this map.

3DEP Elevation Hillshade. LIDAR and legacy USGS DRG Topo Derived hillshades used as a background. DEM - WMS Service: https://elevation.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/services/3DEPElevation/ImageServer/WMSServer, Layer: 3DEPElevation:Hillshade Gray

Full List of WMS and ArcMap Services - CSV Spreadsheet with all web map services currently used on the blog.

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