EPA ECHO Facility Compliance & Enforcement Tracker – Environmental Compliance API

An EPA ECHO API and environmental-compliance data feed that pulls regulated-facility records from EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online service and normalizes each into a clean record: facility, location, compliance status, current violations, inspection and enforcement counts, and total penalties across Clean Air/Water and RCRA programs. Use it to build an environmental due-diligence tool, an ESG risk monitor, or a data feed for environmental law and site assessment.

Who uses it

Environmental law firms, ESG and sustainability analysts, real-estate and M&A due-diligence teams assessing site risk, insurers, and community/advocacy researchers.

Why this is worth charging for

A facility's environmental violation and penalty history is material to site value, liability and ESG scoring, but ECHO exposes it through a two-step query API with program-specific field names that differ by media. This actor handles the QueryID handshake, pagination and field normalization, delivering a clean facility-level compliance feed.

Output

Each dataset item is one normalized record:

{
  "registryId": "110000123456",
  "facilityName": "Acme Chemical Plant",
  "street": "1 Industrial Way",
  "city": "Houston",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "77001",
  "latitude": 29.76,
  "longitude": -95.36,
  "complianceStatus": "Significant Violation",
  "inspectionCount": 4,
  "formalActionCount": 1,
  "penaltiesTotal": 25000,
  "naicsCodes": "325199",
  "source": "EPA ECHO"
}

Input

Field	Description
state	Filter facilities by state, e.g. TX.
county	Filter by county name.
zip	Filter by ZIP code.
mediaProgram	Restrict to a single environmental program.
violationsOnly	Only return facilities with current violations.
pageSize	Facilities per page.
maxPagesToScan	How many pages to page through per run.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Recommended for schedules — skips records already returned by a previous run using persisted state, so you're only charged for genuinely new items.
maxItems	Stop after this many normalized records.

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

• query — $0.03, charged once per run for the API query/poll.
• facility-record — $0.02 per normalized record pushed. This is the primary event.
• apify-actor-start (Apify-managed) — covers baseline compute per run.

Screening a county or ZIP returns tens to hundreds of facilities in one run for a few dollars. Statewide pulls scale with pages scanned; scope with filters to control cost.

Source & reliability

Data comes from EPA's official echodata.epa.gov REST services via the documented get_facilities/get_qid two-step. Field names are normalized across media programs. No proxies required. Run npm test for the offline self-test covering the normalizer, including edge cases and missing-field handling.

FAQ

Is there an API for EPA compliance data?

Yes — this actor wraps EPA ECHO's REST services and returns clean, deduplicated facility compliance records via the Apify API, webhook or export.

Can I focus on one environmental program?

Yes. Set mediaProgram to AIR, CWA, RCRA or SDWA to restrict results to that program's facilities and status fields.

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