# Environmental Protection Agency

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/environmental-protection-agency/  
**Website:** https://www.epa.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides multiple public data APIs covering environmental records, air quality monitoring, UV forecasts, and internal data holdings. These services enable State and local governments, federal agencies, researchers, and the public to access environmental data about air, water, and land.

## Kin Score — 21.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 46.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **EPA Envirofacts Data Service API** — Envirofacts provides a single point of access to U.S. EPA environmental data contained in U.S. EPA databases. The RESTful Data Service API returns output in JSON, CSV, Excel, HT...
- **EPA Air Quality System API** — The EPA Air Quality System (AQS) API provides programmatic access to ambient air pollution data collected by the EPA, state, local, and tribal air pollution control agencies, in...
- **EPA UV Index API** — The EPA UV Index API provides hourly and daily ultraviolet radiation forecasts by ZIP code or city/state. Output is available in XML, JSON, Excel, and CSV formats.
- **EPA ECHO Compliance and Enforcement API** — Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) provides public access to compliance and enforcement information for EPA-regulated facilities nationwide. The ECHO web services ...
- **Environmental Protection Agency Envirofacts API** — The Envirofacts API from Environmental Protection Agency — 2 operation(s) for envirofacts.
- **Environmental Protection Agency UVIndex API** — The UVIndex API from Environmental Protection Agency — 4 operation(s) for uvindex.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Environmental Protection Agency Agentic Access** — 6 operations

## Security (1)

- **Environmental Protection Agency Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Environmental Protection Agency Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Environment, Federal-Government, Air Quality, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/environmental-protection-agency/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.