EPA ECHO Facility Compliance & Violations Scraper

It covers facilities tracked in EPA's ECHO database across all 50 US states, DC and the territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands and more). That includes facilities regulated under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act (NPDES), RCRA hazardous waste, the Safe Drinking Water Act and reported to the Toxics Release Inventory.

ECHO rejects any single search that would return more rows than its query limit, so a whole large state at once is not allowed. Combine a state with a county, city, ZIP, NAICS or SIC to focus the search. Within a valid search you can collect from a handful up to the full result set using Max Items.

Use the State, County, City, ZIP Code, Facility Name, NAICS Code and SIC Code filters in any combination, plus toggles for active-only and major facilities. When a search returns more facilities than Max Items, the scraper surfaces the facilities with the most enforcement signal (penalties, formal actions, violations, inspections) first.

With "Fetch facility detail report" enabled, each facility is enriched with its Detailed Facility Report: a per-program compliance breakdown and the list of individual formal enforcement actions with penalty amounts and dates. Turn it off for a faster, list-only pull of the headline compliance figures.

Many facilities are small sites with no inspections, violations or penalties. Those records still come through with their identity and location, with the compliance counters at zero or null. Penalty, violation and inspection fields are only populated where EPA has data.