About & method

Who Got Fined answers one question: which companies and facilities did the U.S. EPA fine, in concluded civil enforcement cases, for how much — and under which law?

Data source

• EPA ECHO / ICIS — the Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS) is EPA's system of record for federal civil enforcement cases; ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online) publishes it. This directory is built from the ICIS FE&C bulk download (ECHO data downloads, file case_downloads.zip), refreshed weekly by EPA and re-pulled by this site daily. Every case links to its EPA ECHO case report, and every facility page links to the facility's ECHO Detailed Facility Report.
• No competitor data is used, and no paid licence is involved. The underlying data is U.S. Government public data.

What the directory covers

Formal federal EPA civil enforcement cases — administrative and judicial — that reached a settlement or final order (an "enforcement conclusion" in ICIS) with a civil penalty assessed, where the settlement was entered November 12, 2021 – November 12, 2026 (5 years). A case's penalty is the sum of the federal and state/local penalties assessed in its settlements entered inside that window; supplemental environmental project (SEP) values and compliance-action costs are shown separately where recorded and are not counted as penalties. That is 4952 cases, 7393 facilities, 5242 respondents and 10 primary laws, totalling $2,717,834,221.06 in penalties ($2,428,303,655.96 federal, $289,530,565.10 state/local). Cases are filed under the facility's state; 131 cases with penalties in the window ($543,088,675.46) are excluded because every facility ICIS lists for them is outside the 50 states (territories, foreign facilities, or no location recorded) — the largest is a headquarters case whose listed facility is in Tokyo. 2850 cases have no NAICS industry code recorded for their facility; 406 cases name more than one facility and appear on each facility's page.

Data-through date and freshness

Data through November 4, 2026 (2026-11-04) — the latest settlement-entered date in the directory — refreshed daily. EPA refreshes the ICIS download weekly; this site re-pulls and rebuilds daily so a new EPA file is reflected within a day of publication.

Honest limits — read before relying on this

• ICIS entry lags the real world. EPA notes there may be a delay of up to several months between when cases are concluded and when they are entered into ICIS. The newest settlements here are the newest EPA has published, not necessarily the newest concluded.
• Penalties shown are amounts assessed, not amounts collected. ICIS records what the final order or settlement assessed. Whether and when a penalty was paid is tracked separately by EPA and is not shown here.
• SEPs and compliance costs are not fines. A supplemental environmental project is a project a respondent agrees to fund as part of a settlement, and compliance-action costs are estimates of what the required fixes cost. Both are labelled separately and never added to the penalty figure.
• Possible duplicates across EPA systems. EPA notes ICIS may contain duplicates of actions and penalties also shown in program databases (for example RCRAInfo). This directory uses ICIS only, exactly once per case number.
• Names are as recorded. Respondent names are shown exactly as listed in ICIS and grouped by exact name; the same company under different spellings is not merged. The case name may not exactly match the facility name — ICIS says so itself.
• This is concluded-case history, NOT an allegation list. Every case here ended in a settlement or final order recorded by EPA. Notices of violation, informal actions and criminal prosecutions are not included.
• Free tier: list pages show the top 10 rows of each group (plus the full count and group total); the biggest-fines and most-recent pages show 25 rows; search shows the first 25 matches. Full lists, CSV export, saved-filter alerts and email alerts come with the paid plan and are labelled "coming with the paid plan" until they are built — they are not live today.

How the numbers are labelled

Every state, law, NAICS, company and facility total is labelled as the total of the cases shown in this directory, not the EPA's or the market's full enforcement totals. Page totals are the sum of all cases in the group (not just the rows shown). A case naming several facilities or several respondents is counted once in the directory totals and listed on each of its facility and respondent pages with the full case penalty. Nothing on this site is estimated or invented — every figure comes from the ICIS download fetched 2026-11-12.

Kill gates (the 90-day validation test)

This site is a validation test, not a launch. It will be shut down if:

• After 90 days, fewer than 100 organic sessions per day, or fewer than 1% of visitors use the free search tool;
• After 200 tool users, there are 0 payments;
• After 6 months, fewer than 10 paying customers.

The gates are judged on this directory with its daily refresh: if the directory does not earn its keep at this coverage and freshness, the test ends and the site is not built out further.