⚖️ EPA Enforcement Monitor — Environmental Cases & Penalties (MCP)

The official EPA ECHO enforcement feed: every civil + criminal environmental case — with federal penalties, supplemental projects, cost recovery, complying-action costs, statutes violated, outcomes and pollutant keywords. Monitor mode = "a company just got hit with $X" alerts, daily. Official API. No key. MCP-ready.

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✨ The 6 things ChatGPT can't do (built in)

Ingredient	Here
🔒 Hard-to-get data	EPA's ICIS + Summary of Criminal Prosecutions via ECHO's awkward QID two-step (get_cases → get_qid) with 32 custom columns — the poll nobody flattens: penalty, SEP, cost recovery, complying-action amount per case right in one row.
🛠️ Hardest problems, solved	ECHO 200s errors silently · MM/DD/YYYY dates · $150,000.00 strings · server-side penalty thresholds (GT{amount}) · milestone-date windows · page budget caps.
⚙️ Automation	monitor + daily schedule = "new $850k CWA case filed in Louisiana" the morning ECHO's weekly refresh lands. ESG analysts, environmental lawyers, compliance vendors, insurers and journalists pay for exactly this.
🧠 AI-agent cheap	$0.001 start + $0.001 per case.
🌍 Money in every row	fedPenalty + stateLocalPenalty + sepCost + costRecovery + totalComplianceActionAmt + computed totalPenalty.
📈 Structured law flags	Clean Air / Water / RCRA waste / Superfund / pesticides / TSCA / EPCRA flags per case — multi-statute cases tagged.

💡 Two charged events by design: a new case number (never seen) — and a changed settlement (same case, new settlement date/penalty — the verdict landed). KV key = case|settlement|penalty.

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🚀 3 recipes that pay

#1 — Penalty radar (ESG funds & journalists)

{ "mode": "monitor", "minFedPenalty": 100000, "daysBack": 1 }

→ Every new ≥$100k federal penalty, nationwide, daily. Feed it into your ESG score or your newsroom alerts.

#2 — Industry watch (compliance vendors)

{ "mode": "monitor", "states": ["TX", "LA"], "law": "CAA", "naics": "324", "caseLead": "E", "daysBack": 7 }

→ EPA-led Clean Air Act cases against petroleum refiners (NAICS 324) on the Gulf Coast — call them before your competitor's compliance-software rep does.

#3 — Criminal environmental docket (law firms)

{ "mode": "search", "civilCriminal": "CR", "daysBack": 365, "maxResults": 500 }

→ A full year of concluded environmental criminal prosecutions — caseload intel no search engine aggregates.

MCP: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=amygraphics/epa-enforcement-monitor — "any new EPA penalties over $50k on the West Coast this month?" answered with the official record.

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📦 What each row contains

caseNumber · caseName · caseCategory (AFR/AIF/JDC) · caseStatus · civilCriminal · laws[] flags + primaryLaw/primarySection · primaryNaics · dateFiledISO · settlementDateISO · dateClosedISO · fedPenalty / stateLocalPenalty / totalPenalty · sepCost · costRecovery · totalComplianceActionAmt · enforcementOutcome · lead (EPA/state) · settlementCount · pollutantDesc · url (official case report). Plus eventKey, isNew/firstSeenAt.

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🆚 Competition

Actor	Users	Money-first cases	Monitor
changewire/epa-echo-compliance	—	❌ facility diff JSONL	✅ diffs
epa-echo-facilities	14	❌ facilities only	❌
us	—	✅ penalties per case	✅ KV dedupe + change alerts

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🧪 Input cheat-sheet

Key	Default	What it does
states	all	server-side postal codes
daysBack / fromDate	30	milestone-activity window
caseCategories	all	AFR/AIF/JDC
civilCriminal, caseLead	both	CI/CR · EPA/state
law	all	server-side statute (CAA, CWA…)
minFedPenalty	0 = off	server-side GT{amount}
naics	—	industry code
voluntaryDisclosure	all	include/self-disclosed
outcomeIncludes, lawIncludes, keywords	—	client-side refinement

Fair use — ECHO is EPA's official public web service (they ask clients not to bulk-download; this actor pages ≤1,000 rows, delays 0.4s, and expects you to scope queries with windows + filters — that's the polite path).

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💰 Pricing

• $0.001 actor start · $0.001 per case — all money columns FREE

Rows	Cost (us)
150 cases (30-day Gulf Coast scan)	~$0.15
Daily national ≥$10k watch	~$0.50–2/month

Part of the AmyGraphics data empire — 30 public actors: enforcement & fines, disasters & relief money (FEMA), recalls (FDA+CPSC), tenders (EU/US/UK), registers, conferences, jobs & real estate. Contact: morocco.uiux@gmail.com · apify.com/amygraphics