WhatsMyESG

WhatsMyESG for Journalists

Public regulatory data, in 60 seconds. Free for credentialed reporters.

Browse the full pre-built directory at /companies— every page is source-cited and refreshed every six hours from EPA ECHO + SEC EDGAR.

1. The case

Investigative reporters covering corporate accountability spend roughly four hours per company stitching together EPA ECHO enforcement records, SEC EDGAR 10-K language, state-agency portals, and a half-dozen NGO trackers. The data is all public. The friction is in the assembly — different schemas, different search interfaces, different export formats, and no common citation backbone.

WME compresses that workflow to a single query and returns a structured brief in roughly 60 seconds. The output is purpose-built for sourcing: every claim is anchored to its underlying public record, and the source list is printed on page 1 of the PDF in citation-ready form. You do not re-key a single URL.

The free tier is not a trial. It is a working tier with the same report engine paying customers use, gated only by manual byline verification on our side — we want to make sure you are who you say you are before we open the spigot. Once verified, you generate briefs without a Stripe subscription for as long as you continue reporting.

2. What’s in a brief

  • EPA enforcement history. Total action count plus the five most recent enforcement actions, each cited to the specific NPDES permit, Air Facility ID, or Facility Registry Service ID so a reader can verify the record at the source.
  • SEC EDGAR matches.Compliance-section language pulled from the entity’s most recent 10-K and 10-Q, with the filing accession number and filing date so the reader can pull the source document.
  • State-agency filings.Where applicable — e.g. TCEQ for Texas operators, NJDEP for New Jersey, CARB for California — the most recent state-level enforcement, permit, or violation record.
  • Framework-anchored signals.Disclosure alignment against GRI, SASB, TCFD, ISSB IFRS S1/S2, and CDP — with explicit gaps called out where the entity discloses against one framework but not another.
  • News signals. Public-source news matches tied to material ESG events. Sources are linked, not paraphrased.
  • Page 1 source list.Every public source referenced in the brief is listed on page 1, in the order they appear, with a direct URL. Citations in the body point back to that list by number.

3. Methodology

Data sources, framework references, score components, known limitations, and version history are documented in full at Read our methodology. We publish the indicator catalog and weights inside every report so the score is auditable.

4. Apply for free access

Submit your byline. We review on our side and reply when your access is live. Verification is judgment, not a regex — we read your byline or LinkedIn before we approve, so we ask for the link directly.

We review every application by hand. Reply lands in your inbox from info@whatsmyesg.com.

5. Why we’re doing this

Public regulatory data should not require enterprise pricing to be useful in journalism. WME’s mission is to put that layer of intelligence in the hands of everyone the gated incumbents have been excluding — reporters first.

— Dr. Mohamed Elansary, PhD Environmental Engineering, ASTM E1527-21 EP, Founder

6. Citation example

Every WME PDF carries a uniform citation footer on each page so a reader pulling a screenshot still has the provenance:

Data via whatsmyesg.com — public regulatory data, real-time. Sources listed page 1.