Is it legal to use this for business development?
Yes. Enforcement actions, permits and non-compliance reports are public records published by EPA and the state agencies precisely so that the public can see them. Permit Signal reads and organizes them; it does not access anything private.
How is this different from checking ECHO myself, or from ECHO Notify?
You can – it's all there, and ECHO Notify will email you weekly changes for free. But ECHO is built for regulators and researchers, not for a contractor with ten minutes in the morning, and it doesn't carry TCEQ's own notices. We check every county you cover daily, add the Texas state record, filter out the noise, add 18 months of context and tell you what the facility will likely need, in one page. See the comparison above.
What does "exclusive" mean?
For each county we take one subscriber per trade – one contract operator, one engineering firm, one compliance consultant, one stormwater firm. Your direct competitors in that county don't get the brief.
How current is the data?
EPA refreshes the national dataset about once a week and TCEQ publishes its NOV data about monthly; agencies themselves can take days to weeks to enter an action. We read every source every day, so you see an action within a day of it being published – typically well before it turns into an RFP. We won't claim real-time; nobody has that.
Do you send facility contact details?
We include what the public permit record lists – permit number, permit holder and the agency contact – plus a link to the ECHO facility report. We don't buy or scrape personal contact data.
How do I start and how do I cancel?
Send the form with your county and what your firm does. You get the current week's signals for free, then a two-week trial at no charge with a brief every day there is something new. If it's useful, billing is monthly; cancel with one email.