EPA ECHO Facilities & Environmental Compliance Scraper

Export facility-level environmental compliance data from the official US EPA ECHO Exporter. The Actor streams EPA's weekly bulk file and turns its 130+ source fields into an analysis-ready Apify dataset without requiring an API key.

What you can build

• Environmental due-diligence and Phase I site-screening pipelines
• ESG, compliance and enforcement monitoring
• Industrial lead lists segmented by NAICS and EPA program
• Location intelligence for regulated facilities
• Research datasets covering permits, inspections, violations, actions and penalties

EPA states that ECHO covers more than 1.5 million regulated facilities. A run can save up to 500,000 matching facilities; use multiple state/program runs when you need a larger partitioned export.

Input

Field	Description	Default
maxResults	Maximum facilities, 1–500,000	500
states	Two-letter US state/territory codes	all
nameContains	Case-insensitive facility-name fragment	empty
naicsPrefix	Industry code prefix, e.g. 324	empty
program	ALL, CAA, CWA, RCRA, SDWA, TRI, or GHG	ALL
violationsOnly	Keep current non-compliance records only	false
includeRawRecord	Include all 130+ source fields (slower/larger)	false

Example — Texas Clean Air Act facilities:

{
  "states": ["TX"],
  "program": "CAA",
  "maxResults": 10000
}

Example — currently non-compliant petroleum-sector facilities:

{
  "naicsPrefix": "324",
  "violationsOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 50000
}

Output

Each dataset item includes normalized fields such as registryId, facilityName, address, coordinates, NAICS/SIC codes, program flags, current violation status, five-year inspection/enforcement measures, penalties and a direct ECHO report URL. Set includeRawRecord to true when you also need every field supplied in the official export; keep it off for high-volume delivery.

{
  "registryId": "110000000001",
  "facilityName": "Example Facility",
  "city": "HOUSTON",
  "state": "TX",
  "naicsCodes": "324110",
  "currentViolation": "Y",
  "latitude": 29.76,
  "longitude": -95.36,
  "programs": { "air": "Y", "water": "N", "hazardousWaste": "Y" },
  "detailUrl": "https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000000001"
}

Integrations

Run the Actor from the Apify Console, API, CLI, schedules or webhooks. Results are available as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS through the default dataset endpoints.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~epa-echo-facilities-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"states":["CA"],"program":"CWA","maxResults":5000}'

Data source and limitations

Data comes from the EPA ECHO bulk download, which EPA generally refreshes weekly. A facility's absence, status or compliance flag must be interpreted using EPA's methodology and reporting periods. The Actor does not infer violations and is not a substitute for legal or environmental advice.

Changelog

• 2026-08-01 — v1.0.0: Initial release. Added streaming bulk extraction, state/name/NAICS/program/violation filters, optional complete raw fields, 500,000-item runs, typed overview dataset and source retry handling. Validated against the live EPA export with default, filtered and 10,000-item inputs.