> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/epa-newsroom.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `sources/registry.yaml (id: epa-newsroom)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # EPA News Releases unavailable · Executive · Tier 1 · RSS feed · Independent agency Official site: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## What this source is The Environmental Protection Agency writes and enforces environmental regulations. Its news-release channel carries announcements of rules, enforcement actions, and grants, typically several items per business day. **Model-written orientation** The EPA publishes announcements of environmental regulations, enforcement actions against polluters, and grant awards. The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent federal agency responsible for developing and enforcing environmental regulations across the United States. The EPA's mandate covers air quality, water protection, hazardous waste management, toxic substances, pesticides, and environmental remediation. The agency works with regional offices nationwide and in coordination with state environmental agencies to implement federal environmental statutes including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act. The EPA's news-release channel disseminates announcements of the agency's regulatory and enforcement activities. Readers will typically see several items per business day covering newly proposed or finalized environmental regulations, civil or administrative enforcement actions against regulated entities, settlement agreements resolving environmental violations, grant or funding announcements for environmental projects, and policy developments affecting environmental requirements. The typical content includes announcements of emissions standards for vehicles and industrial facilities, water quality protection measures and drinking-water regulations, Superfund remediation progress and cleanup settlements, hazardous waste disposal and management requirements, and regulatory actions affecting specific industries or regions. Enforcement releases describe civil actions and penalties against entities alleged to have violated environmental law. Regulatory releases summarize proposed or final rules with technical details about compliance requirements and implementation timelines. The releases cite the Federal Register and other authoritative sources where readers can access full regulatory text and technical documentation. _Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-04 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content._ ## Identity and registry record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Registry id | `epa-newsroom` | | Agency / parent organization | Independent agency | | Branch | executive | | Type | RSS feed | | Status | unavailable | | Tier | 1 | | URL (feed) | https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/search/rss | | URL (home) | https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases | | Registered | 2026-07-26 | | Registry notes | Probed 2026-07-26: robots.txt disallows our identified client for this path. Not fetched, per GUIDE §3 (no evasion). Fallback channels (GovDelivery email) to evaluate. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: epa-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged). | ## How we ingest it | Term | Description | |---|---| | Channel | RSS feed | | Method | Would poll the news-release RSS feed daily for new items. | | Request budget | the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too) | | Politeness | robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded | | Capture and hash | captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md) | ## Ingestion health Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. ## Ingestion statistics These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher. Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only. ### All time No requests to www.epa.gov are recorded in the request log. ### Last 30 days, day by day No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.