
Connects Claude to the US EPA's Envirofacts database, a collection of environmental datasets covering air quality, water discharge, hazardous waste, and toxic releases across the United States. Part of the Pipeworx gateway, which routes requests to 846+ data sources and includes an ask_pipeworx tool that translates natural language questions into the appropriate API calls. Useful when you need to pull facility compliance data, look up pollution metrics by geography, or answer questions about environmental regulatory information without manually constructing EPA API queries. Available as a standalone server or through the full Pipeworx gateway for broader data access.
US EPA Envirofacts MCP.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
facilities_by_zip | List EPA-regulated facilities in a US ZIP code from the EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS). Returns each facility once with all the EPA programs (RCRAINFO, NPDES, AIRS, TRI, etc.) it's regulated under. Keyless. |
facilities_by_state | List EPA-regulated facilities in a US state (and optionally a city) from the EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS). Returns each facility once with all the EPA programs it is regulated under. Keyless. |
get_facility | Look up one EPA-regulated facility by its FRS Registry ID. Returns the facility detail plus a programs[] array listing every EPA program (RCRAINFO, NPDES, AIRS, TRI, etc.) the site is regulated under. Keyless. |
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"epa-envirofacts": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/epa-envirofacts/mcp"
}
}
}
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/epa-envirofacts/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Epa Envirofacts data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
MIT
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/facilities_by_zip \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"zip":"94704"}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/facilities_by_zip. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.