EPA ECHO Compliance & Enforcement Facility Scraper API

Search official U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ECHO facility evidence without an API key. Find regulated facilities by name, exact EPA FRS registry ID, environmental program ID, geography, NAICS, media program, compliance status, inspection history, enforcement activity, penalties, TRI reporting, or impaired-water discharge flag.

Built for environmental due diligence, supplier and site screening, ESG research, compliance monitoring, insurance and credit review, legal research, community-impact analysis, and public-record enrichment.

Fast first run

Click Start with the prefilled input. It returns up to 25 active Texas facilities currently in significant noncompliance with reported five-year penalties, sorted by total penalties. Clear state or change any filters for your workflow.

{
  "state": "TX",
  "activeOnly": true,
  "compliance": "significant",
  "penaltyFilter": "any",
  "sortBy": "highestPenalty",
  "maxResults": 25
}

High-value searches

Exact facility evidence by EPA FRS ID

{
  "registryId": "110067678622"
}

An exact registryId takes precedence over all other filters and returns at most one record.

Company facilities in one state

{
  "facilityName": "Exxon",
  "nameSearchType": "contains",
  "state": "TX",
  "media": "air",
  "activeOnly": true,
  "compliance": "any",
  "penaltyFilter": "any",
  "sortBy": "highestPenalty",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Recent enforcement and penalties

{
  "state": "LA",
  "formalEnforcement5Years": true,
  "penaltyFilter": "within36",
  "sortBy": "latestEnforcement",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Current TRI reporters in an industry

{
  "state": "OH",
  "naics": "325",
  "media": "tri",
  "currentTriReporter": true,
  "compliance": "any",
  "penaltyFilter": "any",
  "sortBy": "highestTriReleases",
  "maxResults": 100
}

What each facility can include

The actor emits stable, normalized fields for:

• identity: facility name, FRS registry ID, address, county/FIPS, EPA region, coordinates and coordinate-quality metadata
• program coverage: Clean Air Act, NPDES/Clean Water Act, RCRA hazardous waste, drinking water, TRI, and GHG flags and program IDs
• compliance: current integrated and program-level status, significant-noncompliance flags, programs in significant noncompliance, and quarter histories
• inspections: integrated and program-level counts, latest inspection, and days since inspection
• enforcement: formal and informal action counts and dates, plus federal enforcement case evidence
• penalties: integrated and program-level five-year totals, count, latest date, and latest amount
• releases and risk context: TRI releases/transfers, GHG CO2e, impaired-water and nonattainment flags, and selected EJScreen indicators
• provenance: official EPA detailed-facility-report URL, retrieval time, source refresh caveat, query count, and screening disclaimer

No-match searches return one explicit NO_MATCHING_FACILITIES item rather than an ambiguous empty dataset. Temporary official-source failures return SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE evidence and do not pretend that no facility exists.

Source and refresh cadence

Data comes from EPA's official public ECHO Facilities ArcGIS map service, which is refreshed from ECHO's integrated facility data on a weekly cadence. ECHO combines federal and state program systems; each underlying system has its own reporting schedule and can lag.

Official source and bulk-data documentation: EPA ECHO data downloads

Important interpretation limits

• ECHO is screening and research evidence, not a substitute for reviewing permits, enforcement documents, consent decrees, or the responsible agency's case file.
• A violation or significant-noncompliance indicator may represent alleged or agency-identified conditions and does not by itself prove final liability or adjudication.
• Five-year counts and totals use ECHO's current reporting windows and source definitions.
• Null fields usually mean that the source did not report that measure for the facility or program; they do not prove zero activity.
• Coordinates can have different collection methods and accuracy. Use coordinateAccuracyMeters and the official detailed report before property-level conclusions.
• Exact identifiers are stronger evidence than name-only matches. Verify material decisions against sourceRecordUrl and the relevant EPA/state program.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Check the live Apify Store pricing panel for the current per-start and per-result rates.