EPA ECHO grades each regulated facility quarter by quarter across air, water, hazardous waste and drinking water. Our EPA ECHO scraper keeps every quarter and penalty.
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You set the scope: a state, county or ZIP code, an EPA Region, NAICS or SIC codes, a programme such as the Clean Air Act or RCRA, a compliance status, or simply a list of FRS IDs or company names. We build the crawlers for the facility search, the Detailed Facility Report and the enforcement case search, keep them running and fix them when ECHO changes. Search results are paged and capped, so a large scope is split into smaller searches and merged on the FRS ID; rendering, pacing and proxy rotation are part of the service.
Runs are one-off or scheduled, weekly for a supplier list or monthly for a whole industry. Field documentation comes with the dataset, and a free project assessment tells you what the run will return before you order it.
The core record is the Detailed Facility Report, one per facility, opened by its FRS ID - the Facility Registry Service number that ties together every programme ID a site holds. The report has six sections: Facility Summary, Facility/System Characteristics, Enforcement and Compliance, Environmental Conditions, Pollutants and Community. We read them all into one row per facility plus child tables.
Facilities are businesses and public bodies, collected as ECHO names them, with the source's own data last refreshed stamp on each row.
The facility search is where coverage is planned. Its results table carries counts the report only implies - compliance monitoring activity over five years, significant violations, quarters with noncompliance over three years, formal enforcement actions over five years, total penalties, the date and amount of the last penalty, GHG and TRI releases - and the programme ID columns for ICIS-Air, NPDES, RCRA, RMP, SEMS, SDWA, TRI, GHG and TSCA that show which programmes touch a site.
The enforcement case search adds the case view: case identifier, case name, case category, civil or criminal indicator, case status, primary law and section, filed or issued date, settlement date, federal penalty assessed or agreed to, SEP value, value of complying actions and enforcement outcome. We join cases to facilities by name and address so a penalty sits beside the site that paid it.
Time is the reason to run it more than once. The compliance grid shows a rolling twelve quarters, so the oldest quarter drops off as each new one is added. Snapshots kept on a schedule build a compliance history longer than any single report shows, and a facility's slide from violation identified to significant violation is caught when it happens.
ECHO - Enforcement and Compliance History Online - is run by the US Environmental Protection Agency at echo.epa.gov. It brings together the inspection, violation and enforcement records of four programmes: the Clean Air Act for stationary sources of air pollution, the Clean Water Act's NPDES permits for wastewater, biosolids and industrial stormwater, RCRA Subtitle C for hazardous waste, and the Safe Drinking Water Act for public water systems.
Federal and state records sit side by side. A formal action may be led by EPA or by a state or local agency, which is why the lead agency field matters, and civil cases come from a different source system than criminal ones. Search tools are split the same way: an All Media Programs facility search, one search per programme, a drinking water system search, the Corporate Compliance Screener and the EPA enforcement case search.
Around them sit analysis tools - EPA/State dashboards, the Water Pollutant Loading Tool, the ECHO Clean Air Tracking Tool, the Data Visualization Gallery and PFAS Analytic Tools. ECHO also publishes a Known Data Problems page and a refresh date for each source, a reminder that each programme reports on its own timetable.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsA facility's record in ECHO is a running account of how it treats air, water and waste, and several kinds of buyer read it for different reasons.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt EPA ECHO API returns FRS ID, facility name, compliance status by statute, quarters with noncompliance, formal enforcement actions and penalties as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you choose. You can also take the same rows as CSV or Excel files, a JSON feed or a load into your database.
Yes. ECHO publishes facility reports, compliance status, inspections and enforcement cases for public review. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on EPA ECHO - and we collect it legally. The records describe facilities run by companies and public bodies rather than private persons.
Each programme refreshes on its own timetable, and ECHO shows the date each source was last refreshed. We run on the cadence you pick, weekly or monthly in most projects, and stamp every row with both our collection date and ECHO's own refresh date, so you always know how current a status is.
Yes. The report shows a rolling twelve-quarter compliance grid, so we store every quarter from every run and the history keeps growing after quarters leave the live report. New violations, violation determined dates and return to compliance dates are kept per facility and per statute.
Yes. For Clean Water Act facilities the report lists discharge monitoring report pollutant loadings by NPDES ID and year, next to the permit status and expiration date. We deliver them per permit, loading category and year, with the load over limit, ready to compare plants within a watershed or an industry.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
EPA ECHO data from €169/month. Free project assessment, reply within 1 business day.