Write an archiver for EPA MATS data

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Motivation and context:

In the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (EGUs), also known as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards or MATS, EPA set technology-based emissions standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emitted by units with a capacity of more than 25 megawatts. These standards reflect levels achieved by the best-performing sources and apply to existing and new EGUs.

MATS, along with significant changes in the power sector, has achieved significant health and environmental benefits by reducing a broad range of hazardous air pollutants. By 2017 mercury emissions had dropped by 86 percent - down to approximately 4 tons. Acid gas HAP and non-mercury metals are down 96 percent and 81 percent respectively when compared to 2010 levels.

Given the new administration's tendency to disregard environmental pollutants, it's prudent to archive this information for future research/insight into the power sector and it's impacts on human and environmental health.

• link to MATS description

Requirements for archiving

To be archived on Zenodo, a dataset must be:

• published under an open license that permits reuse and redistribution
• less than 50Gb in size (when zipped)
• relevant to energy modelling and research

Checklist for archive creation

Based on the README documentation on creating a new archive:

• Define the dataset's metadata
• Implement archiver interface
• Test archiver locally
• Test uploading to Zenodo
• Manually review archive before publication
• Finalize archive (only core Catalyst developers can complete this step)
• Automate archiving

Links to published archives:

Include a link to the published sandbox archive for review.