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Working towards a US State Open Data Census
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Select Dataset: Energy and Environment #11

Closed waldoj closed 9 years ago

waldoj commented 9 years ago

Select the one dataset that serves as the touchstone of state-level energy and environment data.

emily878 commented 9 years ago

I received a request for "Environmental Permits" to be the core dataset in this category.

waldoj commented 9 years ago

Task for Waldo: figure out how we can define "environmental permits." What kind of data does that encompass?

waldoj commented 9 years ago

Air, water, and waste permits seem to be the three most common kinds. There are others administers by various state environmental agencies that are far from universal—burning, coal mining, uranium mining, hard rock mining, "opencut" mining, solid waste management, storage tanks, septic tanks, stormwater, small-scale renewable energy, biosolids application...actually, it looks like I could go on for a while. Broadly, it seems to break down to water, air, land, and waste permits.

Perhaps this is a good dataset to keep really broad. I suggest just say "environmental permitting data," and leave it up to states' norms—what is and is not part of their environmental portfolio—as to what that encompasses.

waldoj commented 9 years ago

In the spirit of WP:BOLD, I'll close this and open up a new issue to act on it.