Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)

Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) is a web‐based application that allows organizations to access the previous two years of their Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inspection and compliance history. ECHO provides very comprehensive information. The database can be searched, and its output manipulated, in many ways, and it is quite flexible. Unfortunately, its obscure interface and the presentation of the data in each record rendered the product difficult to use for this reviewer; for an infrequent database searcher it might be more difficult still.

ECHO records contain three types of information for a company or given location: inspection...