The EPA has developed a series of profiles or sector notebooks containing
information on selected major industries. These notebooks, which
focus on key indicators that holistically present air, water,
and land pollutant release data, have been thoroughly reviewed
by experts from both inside and outside the EPA.
An adjunct to the Industry Sector Notebooks series, the government
series is a group of associated Notebooks that are organized by
government sector rather than a particular industry sector.
Spanish - Notebooks that have been translated into Spanish
are marked by a double asterisks (**). Printing - If these documents do not print completely,
you may have insufficient memory in your printer. If this is the
case, printing only small portions of the document at one time
may correct the problem. For the best resolution documents published
after 2001 should be printed on Postscript printers, otherwise
some illustrations may be blurry.
The Sector Notebooks Data Refresh
presents the latest available Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) release
and transfer data and compliance data for most of the Sectors
covered in the Notebooks series. Data are not provided for Sectors
that are not required to report to TRI or that cannot easily be
defined by Standard Industrial Code (SIC).
Electronic copies of all the Sector Notebooks can be downloaded free of charge from this location. All of the Notebooks are in Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) Files. They can be viewed, and printed, with the use of an Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Printed copies can be ordered for a fee of between $6 and $25,
depending on length, from the Government Printing Office (GPO)
by calling (202) 512-1800 or by linking directly to the GPO
Sales Product Catalog
.
Be sure to search using "sector notebook" or the exact
title of the document (Profile of the xxxxx Industry). (For federal
state and local government employees and libraries only) Contact
EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
online or call at (800) 490-9198 for free printed copies of any
Notebook, while supplies last. When ordering, be ready with the
exact title (Profile of the xxxxx Industry) or the EPA publication
number (listed on each Sector Notebook Web page cited above).
EPA is planning to revise the Profile of the Pharmaceutical
Industry and the Profile of the Rubber and Plastics Industry
and to develop new notebooks for tribal governments; and for the
construction, healthcare, and auto-salvage industries.
Share this resource with your colleagues with a fact
sheet(PDF, 67KB) describing
the Sector Notebooks series. A limited number of colorful 24 x
18 inch Know Your Industry posters are also available (see
obtaining copies above).
