Archive of Massachusetts ENvironmental Data

The Archive of Massachusetts Environmental Data

The Environmental Council of States state environmental budget data

Data source

The Environmental Council of States periodically publishes reports that collect total budgets, contributions from the three major sources (state general funds, fees, and the federal government) and other information about state environmental agencies. These reports are based on surveys of state governments, and are generally limited to include information from states that respond to those surveys. The specific data collection practices associated with each state annual budget are documented in the reports themselves, available here:

The years 2011 and 2013 are included in two of the above reports. In some cases, different figures are reported for the same state in these years between the two overlapping reports, presumably reflecting changes between the enacted budget and actual expenditures. In our analyses, we use the data from the later report, and also provide the earlier data in our archive labeled as “2011_old” and “2013_old”.

We adopt the Environmental Agency Budget with the state revolving fund component included, as reported by ECOS, as the key budget figure.

Each ECOS report includes detailed information about how the data was collected and caveats associated with the interpretation of the figures. In particular, the 2017 - 2017 ECOS report explains: “ECOS cautions comparing overall state EAB totals in this report to previous ECOS state EAB report totals. ECOS recognizes that clean water and drinking water SRF infrastructure funding is an important and significant source of federal funding that supports protection of human health and environment at the state and local level. This report only includes clean water and drinking water SRF from a state’s overall EAB calculations if a state agency reported a portion or all of these funds were a part of their overall budget. In past ECOS budget reports, clean water and drinking water SRF were added to state agency EAB based on EPA appropriation data for states that excluded these funds from their budget calculation.” We do not adjust for this

Note also that the values in this table are not adjusted for monetary inflation. We do adjust for inflation in some analyses derived from this data.

The data from these reports have been archived on this site, last updated on 19 April 2026 01:45 am.

See Ballotpedia for an alternate accounting of state environmental budget figures.

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Data visualization

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The fiscal data in these visualizations has been corrected for inflation to 2024 dollars using the SSA wage data.

State agency budgets comparison by year:

ECOS Budgets by State Per Year

State agency budget per capita comparison by year:

ECOS Budget per capita by State Per Year

State agency budget from federal government comparison by year:

ECOS Federal Contribution by State Per Year

Data table

Showing the first 50 rows as a sample. Download the full archive as CSV.

State Year Budget Detail Value
Alabama 2013_old Amount from Federal Government 16134988
Alabama 2014 Amount from Federal Government 16961056
Alabama 2015 Amount from Federal Government 18374332
Alabama 2016 Amount from Federal Government 18112231
Alabama 2016_old Amount from Federal Government 18112231
Alabama 2017 Amount from Federal Government 18199899
Alabama 2018 Amount from Federal Government 18247625
Alabama 2019 Amount from Federal Government 20551150
Alabama 2020 Amount from Federal Government 17608505
Alabama 2021 Amount from Federal Government 15719115
Alabama 2022 Amount from Federal Government 17622324
Alabama 2023 Amount from Federal Government 17861420
Alabama 2013_old Amount from Fees / Other 32198083
Alabama 2014 Amount from Fees / Other 33623919
Alabama 2015 Amount from Fees / Other 35759319
Alabama 2016 Amount from Fees / Other 35925915
Alabama 2016_old Amount from Fees / Other 35925915
Alabama 2017 Amount from Fees / Other 36210958
Alabama 2018 Amount from Fees / Other 37097646
Alabama 2019 Amount from Fees / Other 36864643
Alabama 2020 Amount from Fees / Other 39240531
Alabama 2021 Amount from Fees / Other 41532868
Alabama 2022 Amount from Fees / Other 38614423
Alabama 2023 Amount from Fees / Other 41259346
Alabama 2013_old Amount from General Fund 3019533
Alabama 2014 Amount from General Fund 827745
Alabama 2015 Amount from General Fund 829950
Alabama 2016 Amount from General Fund 280000
Alabama 2016_old Amount from General Fund 280000
Alabama 2017 Amount from General Fund 400000
Alabama 2018 Amount from General Fund 575000
Alabama 2019 Amount from General Fund 575000
Alabama 2020 Amount from General Fund 4006734
Alabama 2021 Amount from General Fund 4000000
Alabama 2022 Amount from General Fund 5511600
Alabama 2023 Amount from General Fund 5528127
Alabama 2011_old Amount of Budget from SRF 28352000
Alabama 2012 Amount of Budget from SRF 27088000
Alabama 2013_old Environmental Agency Budget 51352605
Alabama 2014 Environmental Agency Budget 51412720
Alabama 2015 Environmental Agency Budget 54963601
Alabama 2016 Environmental Agency Budget 54318146
Alabama 2016_old Environmental Agency Budget 54318146
Alabama 2017 Environmental Agency Budget 54810857
Alabama 2018 Environmental Agency Budget 55920271
Alabama 2019 Environmental Agency Budget 57990793
Alabama 2020 Environmental Agency Budget 60855770
Alabama 2021 Environmental Agency Budget 61251982
Alabama 2022 Environmental Agency Budget 61748346
Alabama 2023 Environmental Agency Budget 64648892