PPG INDUSTRIES INC

PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE: PPG, SEC CIK 0000079879) is a major U.S. manufacturer of paints, coatings, and specialty materials, with operations spanning 109 EPA-tracked facilities across the United States [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The corporate row, classified primarily under NAICS 325510 (Paint and Coating Manufacturing), aggregates a multi-decade portfolio of architectural-coatings, industrial-coatings, automotive-OEM-coatings, aerospace-coatings, and specialty-materials production sites [source: https://www.ppg.com/en-US/sustainability]. PPG publishes annual Sustainability Reports including an executive summary aligned with SASB and GRI frameworks [source: https://stcacnlsigmanlprd01.blob.core.windows.net/content/PPG-EXECUTIVE-SUM].

Federal EPA ECHO records flag this entity with fifty-six non-compliance quarterly markers across the 109-facility footprint in the most recent two-year window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Two PPG Industries Superfund site profiles are listed in the EPA's Superfund database, reflecting historical contamination at legacy sites [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0401559] [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0603984]. The Good Jobs First Violation Tracker aggregates federal and state enforcement penalties at the parent-corporate level [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/ppg-industries]. The most recent SEC Form 10-K was filed February 19, 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000079879].

PPG operates a global portfolio of paint and coating manufacturing facilities, with 109 sites in the U.S. EPA's Facility Registry Service tracked under the parent ID. The U.S. footprint includes architectural-paint mills, industrial-coatings plants for automotive OEM customers, aerospace-coatings labs, and specialty-materials and resin synthesis sites [source: https://www.ppg.com/en-US/sustainability]. Each facility operates under combinations of Title V Clean Air Act permits, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous-waste-handler authorizations, and NPDES discharge permits depending on process scope and waste profile [source: https://cimc.epa.gov/ords/cimc/f?p=CIMC:RCRA:::::P14_RCRA_HANDLER_ID:MID048].

The Good Jobs First Violation Tracker aggregates parent-corporate penalty records across federal and state enforcement databases. PPG's multi-decade aggregate appears in the higher tier of paint-and-coating-sector parent records and includes historical EPA, OSHA, NLRB, and state-attorney-general matters [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/ppg-industries]. The California Air Resources Board has separately fined PPG Industries Inc. $299,000 for selling paint thinners and aerosol coating products that exceeded California VOC limits, with a published settlement record on the agency's website [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-fines-ppg-industries-inc-299000-selling-pa] [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ppg-industries-inc-settlement]. The CARB settlement-archive PDF documents the specific products and limit-exceedances at issue [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/ppg_industries_inc_sa.pd].

A legacy 2000-era EPA settlement covered a separate matter — sale and distribution of certain architectural finishes by PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc. — and is preserved in the EPA archived-newsroom record [source: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epapages/newsroom_archive/newsreleases/9c6430f5]. A separate matter — hazardous-waste violations at PPG Industries Springdale, PA facilities — was resolved by EPA settlement and is preserved in the EPA archived-newsreleases portal [source: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/newsreleases/ppg-industries-inc-settl].

PPG's enforcement-history detail sits at three layers: parent-corporate aggregations through Good Jobs First Violation Tracker; specific federal EPA settlements published in the agency's newsroom archive; and California Air Resources Board state-level fines documented through CARB's settlement page.

The parent-aggregate Violation Tracker dashboard shows a long-tail multi-decade record of federal and state enforcement matters across PPG subsidiaries and business units [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/ppg-industries]. The federal record includes the October 2000 EPA settlement against PPG Architectural Finishes for the sale and distribution of certain coatings, and a separate hazardous-waste-violations settlement at PPG's Springdale, Pennsylvania facilities documented in the EPA newsreleases archive [source: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epapages/newsroom_archive/newsreleases/9c6430f5] [source: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/newsreleases/ppg-industries-inc-settl].

The California state-level enforcement record is the most-recent high-profile matter in the public record. CARB's $299,000 fine against PPG Industries Inc., documented on the CARB settlements page and the corresponding PDF, addressed sales of paint thinners and aerosol coating products that exceeded California VOC limits [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-fines-ppg-industries-inc-299000-selling-pa] [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ppg-industries-inc-settlement] [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/ppg_industries_inc_sa.pd]. The CARB matter illustrates the parallel-track regulatory exposure that paint-and-coatings manufacturers face under California's tighter-than-federal VOC product-content limits.

Two Superfund site profiles in EPA's database are linked to the PPG Industries parent name: the WORK #4 site profile and the parent-name PPG Industries site profile, each reflecting historical contamination from legacy operations [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0603984] [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0401559]. The CIMC RCRA handler profile for the Adrian, Michigan facility documents the federal hazardous-waste-handler authorization scope at one of PPG's larger Michigan sites [source: https://cimc.epa.gov/ords/cimc/f?p=CIMC:RCRA:::::P14_RCRA_HANDLER_ID:MID048].

PPG's SEC 10-K and proxy filings, accessible through the company's investor SEC-filings page, contain Item 1A Risk Factors descriptions of material environmental contingencies and ongoing investigations [source: https://investor.ppg.com/financial-info/sec-filings/default.aspx] [source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000079879]. Historical 10-K filings on EDGAR document the long-arc evolution of PPG's environmental contingency reserves and remediation accruals [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000007987916000065/ppg-201512] [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000007987920000008/ppg201910k] [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000119312509032796/d10k.htm].

PPG's 109 EPA-tracked U.S. facilities span a wide range of process scope and scale — from large industrial-coatings manufacturing plants in Michigan and Ohio, to architectural-paint distribution facilities, to specialty-materials and resin-synthesis sites. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) facility-search portal is the canonical lookup for parent-mapped facility data; the Facility Registry Service at EPA links each operating site to its parent-corporation Federal Registry ID [source: https://echo.epa.gov/]. The CIMC RCRA Profile Page for the Adrian, Michigan facility (Handler ID MID048…) is one example of the federal hazardous-waste-handler authorization scope at a typical PPG industrial-coatings site [source: https://cimc.epa.gov/ords/cimc/f?p=CIMC:RCRA:::::P14_RCRA_HANDLER_ID:MID048].

The two Superfund site profiles linked to the PPG Industries parent — the WORK #4 site and the unnamed parent-record site — document historical contamination at sites that pre-date the current operations footprint. Both are in long-term monitoring rather than active remediation, and EPA's Superfund site-profile dashboards publish the most recent technical-assessment summaries [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0603984] [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0401559]. The PPG Coatings Services environmental policy summarizes the corporate-level approach to regulatory compliance across the broader coatings-services subsidiary network [source: https://www.ppgcoatingsservices.com/about/environmental-policy].

Paint and coating manufacturing facilities are characterized by a distinct emission and effluent profile compared to other heavy-industry sectors. Volatile organic compounds — particularly hydrocarbon solvents, ketones, esters, and glycol ethers used as paint vehicles and reducers — are the dominant air-emission concern, regulated under both federal NESHAP-paint-and-coating-manufacturing rules and state-level VOC-product-content limits like California's CARB Architectural Coatings Suggested Control Measure [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ppg-industries-inc-settlement]. Heavy metals — particularly lead, chromium, cadmium, and zinc compounds historically used as pigments — drive the legacy hazardous-waste classification under RCRA and remain a focus of soil and groundwater monitoring at older paint-and-coating sites [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0401559]. Halogenated solvents — chlorinated and brominated compounds historically used in paint stripping and degreasing — drive groundwater contingency reserves at sites with manufacturing histories predating the modern RCRA-compliant solvent-recovery systems [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0603984].

PPG's Sustainability Report progress summary documents corporate-level Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions trajectories, water-use intensity, waste-diversion rates, and product-stewardship metrics aligned with the SASB and GRI standards [source: https://www.ppg.com/en-US/sustainability/progress-summary]. The 2024 Executive Summary PDF condenses the headline metrics into a single-document overview [source: https://stcacnlsigmanlprd01.blob.core.windows.net/content/PPG-EXECUTIVE-SUM]. The full multi-year archive of PPG sustainability reports is available through ResponsibilityReports.com [source: https://www.responsibilityreports.com/Company/ppg-industries].

Within NAICS 325510 (Paint and Coating Manufacturing) PPG Industries is one of the largest U.S. paint-and-coatings parents, alongside Sherwin-Williams Company, RPM International (which owns DAP, Rust-Oleum, and the Tremco-illbruck portfolio), Axalta Coating Systems, and the U.S. operations of AkzoNobel and BASF Coatings. Each operates a similar multi-mill plus distribution-network model and faces the same NESHAP-paint-and-coating-manufacturing, RCRA hazardous-waste-handler, and state-VOC-product-content regulatory regimes. PPG's 109-facility U.S. footprint puts it on the higher-end of facility-count among peers; the multi-decade aggregate at Good Jobs First Violation Tracker reflects this scale [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/ppg-industries].

Material forward-looking risks for PPG Industries cluster on four vectors: ongoing capital intensity of compliance with Title V air permits and RCRA hazardous-waste authorizations across 109 U.S. facilities; product-stewardship exposure under tightening state VOC-content limits, particularly in California, which has historically led the regulatory frontier; long-term Superfund and remediation-accrual obligations at legacy contaminated sites carried as environmental contingency reserves on the consolidated balance sheet; and product-portfolio transition risk as customers (especially automotive and aerospace OEMs) accelerate their own decarbonization targets and demand lower-VOC, water-borne, and sustainable-by-design coating chemistries [source: https://www.ppg.com/en-US/sustainability/about-this-report] [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0401559].

The SEC 10-K Risk Factors section accessible through the company's investor SEC-filings hub is the canonical place to read the company's own description of these contingencies [source: https://investor.ppg.com/financial-info/sec-filings/default.aspx]. The Good Jobs First Violation Tracker dashboard is the leading public indicator for whether the parent enforcement footprint is rising or falling year over year [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/ppg-industries].