MONDAY MASHUP: EPA Enforcement

By Rachael Gleason
Jan. 11, 2010

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has mapped out its enforcement record for the first time.

A mashup of civil actions and criminal cases shows which polluters the agency cracked down on last year.

Users can search for any combination of air, water, land and criminal actions. In the Great Lakes region, activity focused around Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Many of the enforcement actions were for air and land violations from scrap recycling centers and concentrated animal feeding operations.

Zoom in to a particular area and click on the colored indicators to access EPA data about each violator.

Win a prize if you’re the first to suggest or create a Great Lakes mashup used on Echo’s Monday Mashup. What’s the prize? Well, it’s not a Great Lakes cruise.  But we’ve got stress balls shaped like polar bears and bats (stress bats?), pocket knives, mini-backpacks, flashlights, water bottles and other items of similar fine value lying around the Echo Chamber. We’ll send you something AND publicly acknowledge your contribution in MONDAY MASHUP. Send it to Monday Mashups editor Rachael Gleason at GreatLakesEcho@gmail.com.