# Environmental Violations Scraper (EPA ECHO) (`scrapemint/environmental-violations-scraper`) Actor Facility-level US environmental compliance from EPA ECHO: search regulated sites by company, state or industry and get compliance status, quarters in violation, inspections, enforcement actions and penalties across Clean Air, Clean Water and waste programs. No API key. - **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapemint/environmental-violations-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Ken M](https://apify.com/scrapemint) (community) - **Categories:** Business, News - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per usage This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Environmental Violations Scraper (EPA ECHO) US facility-level environmental compliance from EPA's ECHO database - the official record of how regulated sites perform under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and hazardous-waste rules. Search by company, state or industry and get each facility's compliance status, quarters in violation, inspections, enforcement actions and penalties. No API key, no login, no browser. ### What you get One row per facility: - name, full address, county, coordinates, EPA registry id - SIC and NAICS industry codes - **compliance status** overall and per program (air, water, waste, drinking water) - **significant non-complier** flag and **quarters in non-compliance** - inspection count and last inspection date - penalty count, last penalty date and Clean Air Act penalty dollars - last formal enforcement action date, and a link to the facility's ECHO report ```json { "state": "TX", "naicsCode": "324", "violatorsOnly": true } ```` ### Ways to search - **companyName** - a company or facility name (partial match) - **state** - sweep a whole state's regulated facilities - **naicsCode** - limit to an industry ("324" petroleum, "3116" meat processing) - **violatorsOnly** - only facilities currently in violation or significant non-compliance (the highest-signal filter) ### Who uses this - **ESG and diligence teams**: environmental risk on a target's facilities for M\&A and investment screening. - **Insurers and lenders**: compliance history for underwriting industrial sites. - **Journalists and advocates**: the polluter beat - who violates, where, and what they were fined. - **Compliance and EHS teams**: benchmark your own sites and monitor competitors. Pairs with our Lobbying Disclosure Scraper and Government Contract Winner Leads for a fuller corporate-accountability picture. ### Pricing A small fee per facility row. Searches that match nothing (and violator-only searches where every match is compliant) are free note rows, and the first 2 rows of every run are free. ### Notes - Source: EPA ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online), official US government data. Each row links to the facility's detailed ECHO report. - Compliance status reflects EPA's most recent data; "quarters in non-compliance" captures a rolling three-year history, so a facility can show past non-compliance even when its current status reads clean. - A violation or penalty on record is regulatory history, not a statement about current operations. # Actor input Schema ## `companyName` (type: `string`): Facility or company name to search ("exxon", "tyson foods"). Partial match. Combine with a state to narrow it. ## `state` (type: `string`): Two-letter state code ("TX", "CA"). Use alone to sweep a whole state's regulated facilities, or with a company name. ## `naicsCode` (type: `string`): Limit to an industry by NAICS code prefix ("324" = petroleum, "3116" = meat processing). Optional. ## `violatorsOnly` (type: `boolean`): Return only facilities whose current compliance status shows a violation or significant non-compliance. The highest-signal filter. ## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`): Exclude facilities EPA has flagged inactive. ## `maxRows` (type: `integer`): Stop after this many facilities. ## Actor input object example ```json { "companyName": "exxon", "violatorsOnly": false, "activeOnly": true, "maxRows": 50 } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "companyName": "exxon", "maxRows": 50 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("scrapemint/environmental-violations-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "companyName": "exxon", "maxRows": 50, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("scrapemint/environmental-violations-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "companyName": "exxon", "maxRows": 50 }' | apify call scrapemint/environmental-violations-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapemint/environmental-violations-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Environmental Violations Scraper (EPA ECHO)", "description": "Facility-level US environmental compliance from EPA ECHO: search regulated sites by company, state or industry and get compliance status, quarters in violation, inspections, enforcement actions and penalties across Clean Air, Clean Water and waste programs. No API key.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "RJcW9g0VpnPqDAshW" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/scrapemint~environmental-violations-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-scrapemint-environmental-violations-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/scrapemint~environmental-violations-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-scrapemint-environmental-violations-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/scrapemint~environmental-violations-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-scrapemint-environmental-violations-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "companyName": { "title": "Company or facility name", "type": "string", "description": "Facility or company name to search (\"exxon\", \"tyson foods\"). Partial match. Combine with a state to narrow it." }, "state": { "title": "State", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter state code (\"TX\", \"CA\"). Use alone to sweep a whole state's regulated facilities, or with a company name." }, "naicsCode": { "title": "Industry (NAICS code)", "type": "string", "description": "Limit to an industry by NAICS code prefix (\"324\" = petroleum, \"3116\" = meat processing). Optional." }, "violatorsOnly": { "title": "Only facilities currently in violation", "type": "boolean", "description": "Return only facilities whose current compliance status shows a violation or significant non-compliance. The highest-signal filter.", "default": false }, "activeOnly": { "title": "Only active facilities", "type": "boolean", "description": "Exclude facilities EPA has flagged inactive.", "default": true }, "maxRows": { "title": "Max facilities", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50000, "type": "integer", "description": "Stop after this many facilities.", "default": 500 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```