This site allows you to search 4 environmental databases, including Envirofacts, for your zip code, to retrieve environmental information about your community. In addition, you can explore the databases below to learn more about your community. The four databases are:

• Envirofacts: Pollution, hazardous waste sites, and other regulatory information
• EnviroMapper: "Live" and customizable computer-generated maps of regulated sites throughout the United States
• Surf Your Watershed: Environmental conditions and activities in watersheds throughout the United States
• UV Index: Ultraviolet (UV) Index Forecast A daily forecast of the expected intensity of Ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

A powerful web-based tool that provides a wide range of federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice. This application is provided by U.S. EPA in partnership with federal, state and local government and other organizations.

This is a tool which provides local air quality information. AirCompare searches EPA air quality databases to pull information about pollutants reported under the Air Quality Index (AQI) – and to translate it into charts that show simply whether the previous year's air quality was healthy, unhealthy or unhealthy for specific groups more susceptible to pollution. The tool also can provide a multi-year snapshot of a county's air quality, based on a particular health issue.

This tool covers any area in the Continental U.S. Four sets of indicators, environmental, health, social, and economic, provide information on such environmental justice topics as: adverse health or environmental impacts, aggregate or cumulative impacts, unique exposure pathways, vulnerable or susceptible populations, or lack of capacity to participate in decision making process.

An interactive mapping tool that gives users the ability to display and download virtually any geographic area in the United States and perform spatial processing such as zooming, panning and identifying features. Users can choose various background themes such as land use/land cover, land ownership, National Wetlands Inventory, streams, roads, railroads, political boundaries, EPA point sources, mines, dams, and when available Habitat Conservation Plans bounds

Provides access to copies of drinking water quality reports.

The U.S. EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, and local agencies developed the AIRNow Web site to provide the public with easy access to national air quality information. The Web site offers daily AQI forecasts as well as real-time AQI conditions for over 300 cities across the US, and provides links to more detailed State and local air quality Web sites.

Find the total column ozone amount* over your house (or anywhere else) using data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on the Aura spacecraft. Just enter the date, latitude, and longitude desired.

Source for maps, and related data about: geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology, and marine geology.

A EPA database of ambient environmental data relating to water quality. STORET contains biological, chemical, and physical data on surface and ground water collected by federal, state and local agencies, Indian Tribes, volunteer groups, academics, and others. The original STORET was developed in the 1960s, and today the system continues to serve as EPA’s principal repository for marine, freshwater, and biological monitoring data.

A Web-based tool that provides public access to compliance and enforcement information for approximately 800,000 EPA-regulated facilities. ECHO allows users to find permit, inspection, violation, enforcement action, and penalty information covering the past two years. The site includes facilities regulated as Clean Air Act stationary sources, Clean Water Act direct dischargers, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste generators/handlers. The data in ECHO are updated monthly.

A search on the term “Toxics” and then a zip code will result in a list of facilities in that have reported toxic releases, including air emissions, water surface water discharges, releases to land, underground injections, and transfers to off site locations through the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

A sub-system of Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS). AFS contains compliance data on air pollution point sources regulated by the U.S. EPA and/or state and local air regulatory agencies. This data is available in ECHO.

This system presents annual summaries of air pollution data from two EPA databases:

• AQS (Air Quality System) database provides air monitoring data - ambient concentrations of criteria and hazardous air pollutants at monitoring sites, primarily in cities and towns.
• NEI (National Emission Inventory) database provides estimates of annual emissions of criteria and hazardous air pollutants from all types of sources.

The site which is designed to make emissions data for six common pollutants easy to find and understand. Users can look at overall emissions, emissions by type of industry, or emissions by largest polluter.

Search the Air Quality Index and find ozone maps to learn more about air quality and air pollution.

eGRID is a comprehensive air emissions database of electric power plants in the United States, including emissions data on nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and mercury. The new edition of eGRID now also provides emissions data on two greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide.

EPA's National Emissions Inventory (updated every 3 years) and other information.

RMP*Comp is an electronic tool used to perform the off-site consequence analysis required under the Risk Management Program rule published by the EPA on July 20, 1996, which implements Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act. Previously, EPA has referred to this tool as RMP Calculator or RMP Assistant.

This is a user friendly online tool that helps consumers see how their individual energy use is impacting air emissions. Using data from eGRID, Power Profiler calculates how much nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide are emitted from electricity use.

Get information about Superfund sites in your community.

A search on the term “Toxics” and then a zip code will result in a list of facilities in that have reported toxic releases, including air emissions, water surface water discharges, releases to land, underground injections, and transfers to off site locations through the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

A search on the term “Toxics” and then a zip code will result in a list of facilities in that have reported toxic releases, including air emissions, water surface water discharges, releases to land, underground injections, and transfers to off site locations through the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

A national computerized management information system that automates entry, updating, and retrieval of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) data and tracks permit issuance, permit limits and monitoring data, and other data pertaining to facilities regulated under NPDES.

A search on the term “Toxics” and then a zip code will result in a list of facilities in that have reported toxic releases, including air emissions, water surface water discharges, releases to land, underground injections, and transfers to off site locations through the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

Search EPA's PDF copies of NPDES individual and general permits by state or permit category.

View the status of each State's NPDES programs.

The ARIP database is a collection of information on accidental releases of hazardous chemicals at fixed facilities. The ARIP questionnaire consists of 23 questions about the facility, the circumstances and causes of the incident, and the accidental release prevention practices and technologies in place prior to, and added or changed as a result of, the event. The questionnaire focuses on several areas of accident prevention including hazard assessments, training, emergency response, public notification procedures, mitigation techniques, and prevention equipment and controls.

The National Response Center (NRC) is the sole federal point of contact for reporting oil and chemical spills. In addition to gathering and distributing spill data for Federal On-Scene Coordinators, the NRC serves as the communications and operations center for the National Response Team, which is chaired by EPA. The NRC has implemented an on-line query system that makes oil and chemical spill data available via the World Wide Web.

A search on the term “Toxics” and then a zip code will result in a list of facilities in that have reported toxic releases, including air emissions, water surface water discharges, releases to land, underground injections, and transfers to off site locations through the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

This system provides fast and easy access to the TRI data to help communities identify facilities and chemical releases that warrant further study and analysis.

A free program you can use to find out about the reactivity of substances or mixtures of substances (reactivity is the tendency of substances to undergo chemical change). It includes:

• a database of reactivity information for more than 6,000 common hazardous chemicals,
• a way for you to virtually "mix" chemicals--like the chemicals in a derailed tankcars --to find out what dangers could arise from accidental mixing.

This is EPA's national data base for the Public Water System Supervision Program. It includes inventory, compliance, and enforcement information on the nation's 170,000 public water systems.

A search on the term “Toxics” and then a zip code will result in a list of facilities in that have reported toxic releases, including air emissions, water surface water discharges, releases to land, underground injections, and transfers to off site locations through the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

This system pulls data from the many separate media systems and integrates the data to produce multimedia reports. Multimedia reports can be produced for particular facilities or for types of activities. Data are available at the facility level and allow users to view information about the nature of violations that occurred and to rank facilities for inspection or enforcement priority. The IDEA Web Search is currently divided by media which displays a separate search interface for Water/CWA (data from PCS), Air/CAA (data from AFS), RCRA (data from RCRAInfo) and Multimedia (data from AFS, PCS, RCRAInfo, and NCDB).

This tool is designed to allow the user to search for either a list of facilities or an individual facility owned and operated by agencies, bureaus and departments of the U.S. Government that are regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Air Act (CAA), and the Clean Water Act (CWA). FACTS You can view individual facility data via the Detailed Facility Report. You may specify values for one or more of the featured criteria listed on the home page of this tool. The criteria are broken into several categories and include: Facility Characteristics, Geographic Criteria, and Compliance/Enforcement History.

A Web-based tool that provides public access to compliance and enforcement information for approximately 800,000 EPA-regulated facilities. ECHO allows users to find permit, inspection, violation, enforcement action, and penalty information covering the past two years. The site includes facilities regulated as Clean Air Act stationary sources, Clean Water Act direct dischargers, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste generators/handlers. The data in ECHO are updated monthly.

This system allows you to retrieve compliance and enforcement information for any list of permits or data system identifiers. This allows you to customize a group of facilities you are interested in, and automatically generate reports at any time using output from OTIS, or other systems (PCS, RCRAInfo, AFS, etc). The information returned in table format for any list of IDs submitted includes:

• Facility name and address information;
• Days since last inspection;
• Quarters in Non-compliance in the past 3 years;
• Current SNC Status;
• Formal Enforcement Actions in the past 5 years; and
• Penalties in the last 5 years.

OTIS enables EPA staff, state/local/tribal governments, and federal agencies to access a wide range of data relating to enforcement and compliance with respect to their facilities, including:

• Location or Map
• Company Name
• Toxic Releases
• Environmental Justice
• Time Since Last Inspection
• Violation Status/Frequency
• Enforcement Actions
• Statistical Criteria/Trends

OTIS is a web application that sends queries to the Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis (IDEA) system. Only State and Federal agencies have access to the OTIS data system.

A free program you can use to find out about the reactivity of substances or mixtures of substances (reactivity is the tendency of substances to undergo chemical change). It includes:

• a database of reactivity information for more than 6,000 common hazardous chemicals,
• a way for you to virtually "mix" chemicals--like the chemicals in a derailed tankcars --to find out what dangers could arise from accidental mixing.

A system of software applications used widely to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies. It is one of the tools developed by EPA's Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office (CEPPO) and NOAA, to assist front-line chemical emergency planners and responders. They can use CAMEO to access, store, and evaluate information critical for developing emergency plans. In addition, CAMEO supports regulatory compliance by helping users meet the chemical inventory reporting requirements of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA, also known as SARA Title III). CAMEO also can be used with a separate software application called LandView ® to display EPA environmental databases and demographic/economic information to support analysis of environmental justice issues.

LandView is a DVD and CD-ROM publication of data and maps, jointly issued by the Census Bureau, EPA, USGS, and NOAA.

The Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) Database identifies over 3,000 LEPCs throughout the U.S.

The National Response Center (NRC) is the sole federal point of contact for reporting oil and chemical spills. In addition to gathering and distributing spill data for Federal On-Scene Coordinators, the NRC serves as the communications and operations center for the National Response Team, which is chaired by EPA. The NRC has implemented an on-line query system that makes oil and chemical spill data available via the World Wide Web.

RMP*Comp is an electronic tool used to perform the off-site consequence analysis required under the Risk Management Program rule published by the EPA on July 20, 1996, which implements Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act. Previously, EPA has referred to this tool as RMP Calculator or RMP Assistant.

A comprehensive, and descriptive database of all real property under the custody and control of all executive branch agencies, except when otherwise required for reasons of national security, in accordance with Executive Order 13327. You must be a Federal Government employee to access the website.

This site omits “similarity of appearance” and experimental populations. Does not map whales and non-nesting seas turtles in State coastal waters.

Use this tool to locate hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) and recycling facilities. The TSD Directory contains over 250 TSD facilities. Searching is done by zip code or by state.