{
  "name": "PlainEnviro U.S. Environmental Statistics",
  "description": "Seven descriptive findings computed from PlainEnviro's current EPA-derived database.",
  "page_url": "https://plainenviro.com/statistics",
  "data_vintage": "2026-08-01",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "scope_note": "This is a seven-finding summary, not a bulk export of the underlying entity corpus.",
  "findings": [
    {
      "metric_id": "tri_reporting_facilities",
      "label": "TRI-reporting facilities in the PlainEnviro corpus",
      "subject": "United States",
      "value": 25986,
      "unit": "facilities",
      "source_program": "EPA Toxics Release Inventory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program",
      "period": "current portal source edition",
      "caveat": "A reporting-facility count is not a measure of release amount, toxicity, or health risk."
    },
    {
      "metric_id": "public_water_systems",
      "label": "Public water systems in the PlainEnviro corpus",
      "subject": "United States",
      "value": 49190,
      "unit": "water systems",
      "source_program": "EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/enviro/sdwis-overview",
      "period": "current portal source edition",
      "caveat": "An inventory count is not a measure of drinking-water quality or system compliance."
    },
    {
      "metric_id": "superfund_npl_sites",
      "label": "Superfund National Priorities List sites in the PlainEnviro corpus",
      "subject": "United States",
      "value": 1839,
      "unit": "listed sites",
      "source_program": "EPA Superfund National Priorities List",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-national-priorities-list-npl",
      "period": "current portal source edition",
      "caveat": "A listed-site count does not measure contamination severity, cleanup stage, exposure, or current community risk."
    },
    {
      "metric_id": "leading_state_tri_release_volume",
      "label": "Largest state TRI release-volume total in the PlainEnviro corpus",
      "subject": "Alaska",
      "value": 3852900146.253129,
      "unit": "pounds",
      "source_program": "EPA Toxics Release Inventory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program",
      "period": "2023 TRI reporting year",
      "caveat": "Total pounds combine pathways and chemicals with different toxicities; this is not a health-risk score."
    },
    {
      "metric_id": "leading_state_tri_facility_count",
      "label": "Largest state TRI-reporting facility count in the PlainEnviro corpus",
      "subject": "Texas",
      "value": 2342,
      "unit": "facilities",
      "source_program": "EPA Toxics Release Inventory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program",
      "period": "current portal source edition",
      "caveat": "Facility counts reflect industrial structure and reporting thresholds, not release amount or toxicity."
    },
    {
      "metric_id": "leading_state_water_violation_records",
      "label": "Largest raw state SDWIS violation-record count in the PlainEnviro corpus",
      "subject": "Texas",
      "value": 35614,
      "unit": "violation records",
      "source_program": "EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/enviro/sdwis-overview",
      "period": "current portal source edition",
      "caveat": "The raw count is not normalized for population, system count, monitoring activity, duration, or health basis."
    },
    {
      "metric_id": "leading_state_superfund_npl_sites",
      "label": "Largest state Superfund NPL-site count in the PlainEnviro corpus",
      "subject": "New Jersey",
      "value": 153,
      "unit": "listed sites",
      "source_program": "EPA Superfund National Priorities List",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-national-priorities-list-npl",
      "period": "current portal source edition",
      "caveat": "A listed-site count does not measure contamination severity, cleanup stage, exposure, or current community risk."
    }
  ]
}