Q742. How can I generate a list of facilities affiliated with a given parent company? What should I know before I use the parent company data?

Q742. Under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), facilities are required to report all highest-level U.S. parent company names, addresses, and percents of ownership as of December 31st of the reporting year. The parent company names reported by each facility are listed on the facility's profile page in the Facility Level Information on GreenHouse gases Tool, FLIGHT. To access this page, click the facility from the map view. To generate a list of facilities affiliated with a given parent company, click the "Search Options" button in FLIGHT above the map on the left hand side then select "Parent Company" and search for the corporate entity of your choice in the search field. Additionally, Envirofacts can be used to search GHGRP parent company data, and the results of the search can be downloaded in a spreadsheet for further analysis.

To improve the quality and utility of GHG data, EPA established guidelines for standardizing parent company names beginning with the 2011 reporting year. EPA provided reporters with a list of existing parent companies to choose from to aide reporting consistency. EPA also employed a "style guide" for reporters whose parent company was not on the menu provided, asking them to follow certain style conventions when entering parent company names. For more information on the "style guide", please see http://www.ccdsupport.com/confluence/display/help/Standardization+of+Parent+Company+Names+-+Style+Guide.

Due to the addition of the parent company menu and style guide, most parent companies that began reporting under the GHGRP for 2011 should have consistent punctuation and abbreviation and acronym use. The parent company information reported under the GHGRP for 2010 is improving as facilities re-submit their data; however some of the issues addressed through the changes listed above are still present in the 2010 data set.

Note that the GHGRP does not include data from all emission sources in the U.S., so data collected under the GHGRP does not reflect all greenhouse gas emissions associated with any specific parent company. Also, note that when multiple parent companies are reported, the percent ownership does not necessarily represent the percentage of greenhouse gas emissions for which each parent company is responsible.