National Emissions Inventory, U.S., 2014, EPA/OAR/OAQPS/AQAD

this web service contains layers that depict annual emissions for 2014 at the facility and county level for the following criterial pollutants co lead nh3 nox pm10 pm25 so2 and voc the national emissions inventory nei is a comprehensive and detailed estimate of air emissions of criteria pollutants criteria precursors and hazardous air pollutants from air emissions sources the nei is released every three years based primarily upon data provided by state local and tribal air agencies for sources in their jurisdictions and supplemented by data developed by the us epa the nei is built using the emissions inventory system eis first to collect the data from state local and tribal air agencies and then to blend that data with other data sources nei point sources include emissions estimates for larger sources that are located at a fixed stationary location point sources in the nei include large industrial facilities and electric power plants airports and smaller industrial non industrial and commercial facilities a small number of portable sources such as some asphalt or rock crushing operations are also included some states voluntarily also provide facilities such as dry cleaners gas stations and livestock facilities which are otherwise included in the nei as nonpoint sources the emissions potential of each facility determines whether that facility should be reported as a point source according to emissions thresholds set in the air emissions reporting rule aerr nei point sources are all included in the eis point data category nei nonpoint sources include emissions estimates for sources which individually are too small in magnitude to report as point sources these emissions sources are included in the nei as a county total or tribal total for participating tribes examples include residential heating commercial combustion asphalt paving and commercial and consumer solvent use nei nonpoint sources are all included in the eis nonpoint data category