Epa Mcp Server
Pull EPA ECHO compliance, TRI releases, Superfund sites, drinking-water signals, and AirNow air quality into agent sessions while scoping environmental, real-estate, or public-health products.
Overview
io.github.cyanheads/epa-mcp-server is a MCP server for the Idea phase that queries EPA ECHO, TRI, Superfund, drinking water, and AirNow air-quality data from your agent.
What is this MCP server?
- ECHO facility compliance search for environmental permit and enforcement context
- TRI chemical release data and Superfund site lookups
- Drinking-water related EPA datasets via the unified server surface
- AirNow real-time and forecast air quality (requires AIRNOW_API_KEY from docs.airnowapi.org)
- stdio and local streamable-http on port 3010; npm @cyanheads/epa-mcp-server v0.1.3
- Server version 0.1.3
- npm package @cyanheads/epa-mcp-server
- AIRNOW_API_KEY required for AirNow tools
Community signal: 1 GitHub stars.
What problem does it solve?
Environmental and air-quality product ideas stall when agents cannot retrieve real EPA facility, release, and AQI facts for a specific place or facility.
Who is it for?
Builders exploring US environmental risk, sustainability storytelling, or civic data products who need agent-pullable EPA and AirNow APIs in one MCP package.
Skip if: Formal legal compliance sign-off, non-US-only datasets, or production monitoring without your own caching, rate limits, and data-quality review.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Once configured with an AirNow key, your agent returns EPA and AirNow-backed facility, release, site, and air-quality payloads you can cite in scope docs, prototypes, and data pipelines.
- Agent queries across EPA ECHO, TRI, Superfund, drinking-water, and AirNow surfaces
- Local stdio or HTTP MCP transport (v0.1.3)
- Structured environmental facts for scopes, demos, and ETL prototypes
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Journey fit
Idea/research is the canonical shelf because facility and exposure datasets shape whether a location or compliance idea is worth building; the same tools support validate scoping and grow-phase reporting content. Research subphase covers due diligence on sites, pollutants, and regulatory history before you freeze MVP boundaries.
How it compares
Aggregated public EPA/AirNow MCP connector, not a GIS desktop suite or paid environmental risk scoring platform.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is io.github.cyanheads/epa-mcp-server for?
Indie builders and small teams using AI coding agents to research US environmental compliance, toxic releases, superfund sites, drinking-water context, and air quality for product and content decisions.
When should I use io.github.cyanheads/epa-mcp-server?
Use it while researching or scoping apps that need facility-level EPA data or AirNow AQI, especially before you commit to maps, alerts, or compliance narratives.
How do I add io.github.cyanheads/epa-mcp-server to my agent?
Install @cyanheads/epa-mcp-server, add stdio MCP config with run start:stdio, set required AIRNOW_API_KEY for air-quality tools, optionally MCP_LOG_LEVEL, or use local streamable-http at http://localhost:3010/mcp.