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Environmental permits and impact assessments
Applications and decisions authorising industrial facilities to operate, emit or discharge — including the environmental impact assessments that accompany large projects.
3 of 50 US states, plus ~31 Chinese provincial portals catalogued. This family is fragmented — the 3 below are a sample, not coverage.
Who asks for this
Industrial equipment supplier tracking plants entering permitting
What it answers
Answers "what industrial facility is being permitted here, at what scale, and at what stage" — the earliest public evidence that a plant is coming, used by equipment suppliers and analysts.
| Record class | Permit / authorisation permit_authorisation |
|---|---|
| Sector | Environmental permits ENVI>permits |
| Already served by | not yet checked |
Typical fields
- project name
- operator
- location
- capacity
- stage
- decision
- assessment documents
Catalogued instances (3)
| Dataset | Jurisdiction | Class | Access | Licence | Status | Req. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China — Fujian environmental impact assessment approvals | China — Fujian province | Permit / authorisation | mixed | unverified | requested | |
| China — national environmental impact assessment approvals | China — national | Permit / authorisation | portal | unverified | requested | |
| US state air-permit applications and public notices | United States | Permit / authorisation | mixed | unverified | requested |
Each instance is a separate publisher with its own licence. We never infer a licence from the family, the publisher or the country — the Environment Agency publishes one dataset under the Open Government Licence and another marked all rights reserved.