From: U.S. EPA <usaepa@service.govdelivery.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:19 AM
Subject: Sharing Research from the First Completed TRI University Challenge Projects
To: iammejtm@gmail.com
| Several of EPA's 2013-2014 TRI University Challenge projects have wrapped up, and we're excited to share some of our partners' TRI-related research with you! University of California, Los Angeles - Institute of the Environment and Sustainability UCLA students published Cal EcoMaps a website integrating TRI data with toxicology, demographic, ecological, and revenue data. Through this interactive map, you can find information on profiled facilities from four major industries in Los Angeles County. Each facility is assigned an Environmental Impact Score based on its percentile rank within its respective industry for five environmental impact indicators developed by the students. To view the maps, environmental impact scores, and facility- and industry-level analyses, visit www.environment.ucla.edu/ccep/calecomaps Indiana University-Bloomington - School of Public Health Researchers merged TRI data with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services' Area Health Resource File. The database they created can be used to broadly explore releases of toxic chemicals from TRI facilities alongside sociodemographic and health data at the county level. The researchers published a paper in Environmental Research analyzing TRI releases in association with covariate-adjusted total and cardiovascular mortality rates. Read the article at www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935114001637. To learn more about our 2013-2014 partners and to read the selected proposals for the 2014-2015 school year, visit the TRI University Challenge website.
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Jeremy Tobias Matthews
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