US environmental enforcement — EPA ECHO
A free reference of facility-level environmental compliance from the U.S. EPA's public Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO). The high-severity markers surfaced are a formal enforcement action (a penalty-bearing action under the Clean Air, Clean Water, or Resource Conservation and Recovery Acts) and significant non-compliance. Ordinary inspections and informal actions are not surfaced. An enforcement record is a contestable public fact — "subject to a formal action", never "guilty" or "polluter".
Source: U.S. EPA ECHO — the ECHO Exporter, refreshed weekly · echo.epa.gov.
On record
| On record | count |
|---|---|
| Regulated facilities | 3,225,823 |
| Facilities with a formal enforcement action | 44,998 |
| Facilities in significant non-compliance | 22,200 |
| High-severity events surfaced (formal action / SNC) | 68,479 |
Source: EPA ECHO Exporter, vintage 2026-10-11 (archived, sha256 29ce6043554d…). EPA republishes this file weekly at a single URL and retains no prior editions, so a figure is reproducible only from an edition kept on our side.
The value is cross-register
Environmental enforcement is an operational / regulatory-risk lens. It compounds when joined to the other registers on the same proven entity: a company with a formal EPA action and an SBA credit charge-off, or and an OSHA safety citation, is a cross-register signal a single-source vendor cannot assemble. Browse the cross-register overlaps, resolve a company in the dossier, or read how entities are resolved across registers.
Aggregated and non-nominative: individual facilities and companies are not named on this page. Descriptive counts only — no conclusions.