# EPA Toxic Release Inventory — TRI Facilities & Releases (`commonelements/epa-toxic-releases`) Actor

Search EPA Toxics Release Inventory facilities and annual chemical release data from the Envirofacts API. Filter by state, year, and chemical. Covers air, water, and land releases in pounds. No API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/commonelements/epa-toxic-releases.md
- **Developed by:** [Harry Schoeller](https://apify.com/commonelements) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 dataset item scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## EPA Toxic Release Inventory — TRI Facilities & Chemical Releases

Search and download EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data from the Envirofacts API. Covers ~23,000 facilities that release toxic chemicals, with annual release amounts by medium (air, water, underground, land).

### Modes

#### `facilities` (default) — Search TRI-reporting facilities

```json
{
  "mode": "facilities",
  "states": ["FL", "TX"],
  "maxRecords": 500
}
```

#### `releases` — Annual chemical release amounts

```json
{
  "mode": "releases",
  "year": 2022,
  "states": ["FL"],
  "maxRecords": 1000
}
```

### Example output — facilities

```json
{
  "trifId": "12025PRCTX1100M",
  "facilityName": "ExxonMobil Chemical Company",
  "street": "1100 METHANOL DR",
  "city": "TEXAS CITY",
  "county": "GALVESTON",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "77590",
  "latitude": 29.4012,
  "longitude": -94.9234,
  "industrySector": "Petroleum Refineries",
  "sicCode": "2911",
  "fetchedAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Example output — releases

```json
{
  "year": 2022,
  "trifId": "12025PRCTX1100M",
  "chemical": "BENZENE",
  "casNumber": "71-43-2",
  "fugitiveAirLbs": 1250.0,
  "stackAirLbs": 4320.0,
  "waterLbs": 0.0,
  "undergroundLbs": 0.0,
  "landLbs": 0.0,
  "totalReleasesLbs": 5570.0,
  "fetchedAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Use cases

- Environmental compliance and risk screening
- Real estate and site contamination assessment
- Community environmental health research
- ESG scoring and environmental risk analysis
- Regulatory research and policy analysis

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Choose 'facilities' to list TRI reporting facilities (filterable by state/SIC), or 'releases' to get annual chemical release quantities (filterable by year/state/chemical).

## `states` (type: `array`):

Two-letter state abbreviations to filter by (e.g. \["TX", "CA"]). Leave empty to fetch all states (facilities mode only; in releases mode all available national data is fetched then filtered).

## `year` (type: `integer`):

TRI reporting year to fetch (releases mode only). Defaults to 2022.

## `chemicalName` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive substring filter applied to the chemical name (releases mode). E.g. 'lead' matches 'LEAD', 'LEAD COMPOUNDS', etc.

## `sicCode` (type: `string`):

Filter facilities by SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code prefix (facilities mode). E.g. '28' matches all chemical manufacturers.

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total records to return across all pages/states. 0 = no limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "facilities",
  "states": [
    "FL",
    "TX"
  ],
  "year": 2022,
  "chemicalName": "lead",
  "sicCode": "28",
  "maxRecords": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("commonelements/epa-toxic-releases").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("commonelements/epa-toxic-releases").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 '{}' |
apify call commonelements/epa-toxic-releases --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=commonelements/epa-toxic-releases",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/K0im6qH3egf7TP3ds/builds/eBEbHFjasEO8I8FJB/openapi.json