Environmental Policy: Statistics & Data

From Environmental Enforcement Watch: a "collection of open federal data tools and resources relevant to various aspects of environmental governance, including health and toxics; air and surface quality water, and much more."

EPA has set national air quality standards for six common air pollutants (also called the criteria pollutants): carbon monoxide, ozone, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matte, and sulfur dioxide.

A single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data. EPA site for data on air quality, water, waste, and more.

Access EPA's environmental data through the Environmental Dataset Gateway (EDG); Geospatial Applications; Registry of EPA Applications, Models, and Data Warehouses (READ); and System of Registries (SoR)

Serves as a one-stop to discover and access EPA's Open Data resources.

Including renewable energy and emissions

Comprehensive collections of energy-sector data. From the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Offers statistics on energy consumption & production and imports & exports. From the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

"Environmental" section includes Agricultural Chemical Usage Reports

The Fourth Assessment advances actionable science that serves the growing needs of state and local-level decision-makers from a variety of sectors.

Nonprofit with reports and data on economic development, education, employment and income, environment, government, health, housing, immigration, infrastructure, political participation, population, public finance, social policy, transportation, and water

Data-driven assessments of L.A. County sustainability topics, including environment (2015), energy & air quality (2017), water (2019), and ecosystem health (2021).

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Powered by Google Maps, this atlas depicts humanity's impact on the environment. The primary focus is on environmental status and trends over the last 30 years, in terms of both physical and human geography.

Each online book contains historical and cultural background information on the country it covers. Formerly known as the Area Handbooks from the Department of the Army.

2-page summary documents on each country

Country by country statistics

A one-stop-shop for information on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), globally and at the country level. Statistics and project progress information are available by country and by goal.

Provides direct access to official documents reflecting the views of United Nations Member States by bringing together in one place documents available elsewhere.

Data on access to resources, demographics, agriculture, air pollution, chemicals, disease, ecosystems, and much more.

The Statistical Review provides comprehensive, high-quality objective and globally consistent data on world energy markets

Data by country, region, and commercial group (OECD, OPEC) including total and crude oil production, oil consumption, natural gas production and consumption, coal production and consumption, electricity generation and consumption, primary energy, energy intensity, CO2 emissions and imports and exports for all fuels.

Click on country name, statistics, and then "indicators" to see electricity use (kWh) per capita

World energy data including petroleum & other liquids, natural gas, electricity, consumption & efficiency, coal, renewable & alternative fuels, nuclear & uranium, and total energy.