Regional Profile for EPA Region 7
This section examines TRI reporting in EPA Region 7. Region 7 includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and 9 tribes.
For state- and tribe-specific TRI data, see the Where You Live section and the Tribal Communities section.
Industry Sectors
This chart shows the industry sectors with the most TRI-reporting facilities in Region 7.
Note: Percentages do not sum to 100% due to rounding.
In 2020:
- 1,506 facilities in Region 7 reported to TRI, similar to reporting for 2019. The sectors with the most facilities were the chemical manufacturing and food manufacturing sectors.
- • While the figure shows the sectors with the most TRI facilities in the region, the sectors that reported the largest TRI releases in Region 7 were the food manufacturing, metal mining, chemical manufacturing, and electric utilities sectors. Note that relatively few facilities in the electric utilities and metal mining sectors reported to TRI in this region and those sectors are included in “All Other Sectors” in the pie chart above.
This page was published in March 2022 and uses the 2020 TRI National Analysis dataset made public in TRI Explorer in October 2021.