Introduction
This website shall share information about power plants, and facilitate networking between people and groups that oppose them.
Data Sources
We are using several government data sources.
Energy Information Administration
EPA Landfills
EPA Hospital/Medical Waste
Waste to Energy
Sierra Club Coal Rush
SourceWatch Coal Swarm
EPA's AirNow
CARMA - Carbon Monitoring for Action
Sunlight Labs (Congressional Data)
Environmental Working Group (Tap Water Quality)
Join
If you want to join our network of grassroots activists and fighting power plants and dirty energy facilities, then you should get a user account:
1. Add Yourself
2. Add Your Group
Find Facilities
There are several ways to find facilities.
My Community Map - Enter your zip code or address and it will give you all the facilities within 200 miles. If you choose a zip code, this will also give you air quality and demographics data.
State Map - Go to the Map homepage and select your state. Shows all the facilities in the state
National Map - You can see all the facilities of one or more types on a map of the United States. This is slower if you are looking at many facilities.
Basic - A basic facility search.
Advanced - An advanced facility search (in beta).
Resources
We currently do not have many resources uploaded. These are files, like PDFs, that are useful to activists. If you need help uploading a file - let us know.
Corporations Data
Our corporation data set is primarily from the EIA database (including ownership information). So it includes corporations connected to dirty energy and waste facilities. Eg. it includes only a fraction of all corporations.
Census Data
For the My Community map, if you enter a zip code we have Census data (from 1999/2000) for income and race on a zip code level. If you want to see more Census information let us know! We plan to use the 2010 data once it is released.
Congressional Data
For the My Community and State Maps, you will see a list of Congressional Representatives and Senators along with links for their campaign financing, voting, and profile. This is powered by Sunlight Labs. In the future, we will have information for state legislators.
Navigating the Site and Search Results
Say you click on a facility and it shows the corporation that owns the facility. Then you can click on the corporation to see all the facilities that it owns.
If you do a search, the results are displayed twenty at a time. You can jump from one page to another using the controls at the bottom. You can also sort the results by clicking on a column name.
You can export facility search results using the buttons on the right hand side.
Moderation
We strive to maintain a high standard of quality for information on our site so that that you do not have to sort through junk to find what you're looking for. Our first line of defense against junk is that a moderator must approve submitted information before it is publicly available. Our second line of defense is to rely upon your suggestions.
Browser Issues
We have tested the website using Internet Explorer, Firefox (we recommend 3+), Chrome (fastest option), Opera, and Safari. If you are having problems with your browser please let us know the browser version and operating system that you are using.
Open Source
This website runs on a, heavily modified version, of an open source software package called Activism Network. If you want to help us develop this software, we'd love to have your help. We will do a public release in the future.
You want our Facilities Data?
In the future we plan to share our facilities data using an API. We are very interested in working with other environmental or activist organizations who want to share data. We are not interested in working with energy consulting firms that deal with gas, coal, oil, nuclear, or biomass (aka waste to energy).
Contact Us
We would love to hear from you about how we can improve this site!
Email Us
This website shall share information about power plants, and facilitate networking between people and groups that oppose them.
Data Sources
We are using several government data sources.
Join
If you want to join our network of grassroots activists and fighting power plants and dirty energy facilities, then you should get a user account:
1. Add Yourself
2. Add Your Group
Find Facilities
There are several ways to find facilities.
My Community Map - Enter your zip code or address and it will give you all the facilities within 200 miles. If you choose a zip code, this will also give you air quality and demographics data.
State Map - Go to the Map homepage and select your state. Shows all the facilities in the state
National Map - You can see all the facilities of one or more types on a map of the United States. This is slower if you are looking at many facilities.
Basic - A basic facility search.
Advanced - An advanced facility search (in beta).
Resources
We currently do not have many resources uploaded. These are files, like PDFs, that are useful to activists. If you need help uploading a file - let us know.
Corporations Data
Our corporation data set is primarily from the EIA database (including ownership information). So it includes corporations connected to dirty energy and waste facilities. Eg. it includes only a fraction of all corporations.
Census Data
For the My Community map, if you enter a zip code we have Census data (from 1999/2000) for income and race on a zip code level. If you want to see more Census information let us know! We plan to use the 2010 data once it is released.
Congressional Data
For the My Community and State Maps, you will see a list of Congressional Representatives and Senators along with links for their campaign financing, voting, and profile. This is powered by Sunlight Labs. In the future, we will have information for state legislators.
Navigating the Site and Search Results
Say you click on a facility and it shows the corporation that owns the facility. Then you can click on the corporation to see all the facilities that it owns.
If you do a search, the results are displayed twenty at a time. You can jump from one page to another using the controls at the bottom. You can also sort the results by clicking on a column name.
You can export facility search results using the buttons on the right hand side.
Moderation
We strive to maintain a high standard of quality for information on our site so that that you do not have to sort through junk to find what you're looking for. Our first line of defense against junk is that a moderator must approve submitted information before it is publicly available. Our second line of defense is to rely upon your suggestions.
Browser Issues
We have tested the website using Internet Explorer, Firefox (we recommend 3+), Chrome (fastest option), Opera, and Safari. If you are having problems with your browser please let us know the browser version and operating system that you are using.
Open Source
This website runs on a, heavily modified version, of an open source software package called Activism Network. If you want to help us develop this software, we'd love to have your help. We will do a public release in the future.
You want our Facilities Data?
In the future we plan to share our facilities data using an API. We are very interested in working with other environmental or activist organizations who want to share data. We are not interested in working with energy consulting firms that deal with gas, coal, oil, nuclear, or biomass (aka waste to energy).
Contact Us
We would love to hear from you about how we can improve this site!
Email Us