About PollutionLookup.com

PollutionLookup.com is a free tool for answering one question — what's polluting near me? — without bouncing between three separate EPA websites.

Database Snapshot

EPA-regulated facilities	285,063
TRI reporting facilities	23,331
Superfund NPL sites	1,380
Facilities in significant noncompliance	18,305
Lifetime EPA penalties (assessed)	$10.6B
Annual on-site releases (TRI)	2.8B lb
States & territories covered	62
Most recent data build	2026-04-09

Data Sources

EPA Superfund NPL — The National Priorities List of federally-managed contaminated sites. Source: epa.gov/superfund.
Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) — Annual self-reported chemical release data from ~23,000 reporting facilities, ~770 chemicals. Source: TRI Program.
ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online) — EPA's enforcement database for Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and RCRA-regulated facilities. Source: echo.epa.gov.

See the methodology page for details on how we join and process these three datasets.

Disclaimer

This site is informational only. It is not legal, environmental, medical, or real-estate advice. Federal data may contain errors, omissions, or stale records — always verify against the EPA source before acting on anything you read here. Proximity to a regulated facility or Superfund site does not necessarily mean harm, and the absence of a facility from our database does not mean a site is clean.

PollutionLookup.com is not affiliated with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or any government agency.

Who built this

PollutionLookup.com is an independent project by Patrick White, built on public federal data. Bugs, data errors, or page requests: open an issue on the methodology page's GitHub link, or use the contact info there.