Empirical Legal Research: Data Sources & Repositories

A single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data. This website provides access to multiple environmental databases for facility information, including toxic chemical releases, water discharge permit compliance, hazardous waste handling processes, Superfund status, and air emission estimates.

Water quality data submitted from over 400 federal, state and tribal agencies, watershed organizations and other groups are available to support your water quality analyses. Water quality data includes physical, chemical, biological, habitat, metrics and indexes data. Data can be retrieved using multiple formats.

U.S. government datasets on flood risk and activity, sea level rise & coastal erosion, socioeconomic impacts of climate change.