UNITED PARCEL SERVICE

United Parcel Service operates 547 facilities flagged in the EPA ECHO universe under NAICS 492110 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Aggregated quarterly noncompliance records translate to 190 violation-quarters across the trailing 24 months, with derived penalty exposure of $528.5 million calculated from a 5-year total prorated across the 24-month window per the documented derivation method [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The company filed its FY2025 10-K on 2026-02-17, reporting $88.7 billion in revenue and 5.2 billion packages delivered during the year, with average daily volume of 20.8 million packages [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

The compliance footprint sits against a documented enforcement history. EPA's October 19, 2022 consent agreement covered 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico and resolved hazardous waste allegations including failure to make land disposal determinations [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. That action followed a June 16, 2021 EPA Region 6 settlement covering 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas with a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The 2024 GRI Report and 2025 Sustainability and Community Impact Report document a stated path to carbon neutrality by 2050 [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf], while a shareholder resolution filed by As You Sow for the 2026 AGM requests a third-party environmental justice audit [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

The EPA ECHO exporter dataset, refreshed 2026-05-10, lists 547 UPS-affiliated facilities with quarterly noncompliance markers totaling 190 violation-quarters in the trailing 24 months [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Penalty exposure of $528.5 million reflects the prorated 5-year aggregate; the underlying derivation prorates the total_5yr penalties across a 24/60 fraction and is a derivation product rather than a sum of distinct adjudicated 24-month actions [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Active EPA-issued permits in the snapshot stand at zero, with the latest permit date recorded as 2004-12-22 — a pattern consistent with package-handling facilities operating primarily under state-delegated RCRA authority rather than federal permits. The EJ index average sits at 0.0 in the export, reflecting null fields in the source rather than a measured absence of community exposure. Top pollutants are similarly empty in this snapshot, requiring cross-reference to prior consent agreements for substance identification.

The 24-month chronology begins with the legacy of the October 2022 consent agreement, in which EPA announced a settlement resolving alleged violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, including failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. The Consent Agreement and Final Order document remains posted at EPA's enforcement portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups]. Through 2024 and 2025, ongoing quarterly RCRA reporting drives the bulk of the violation-quarter count. The Riverside County District Attorney's office documented a $1.745 million settlement related to environmental violations involving UPS and affiliated entities [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation]. In November 2025, As You Sow filed a shareholder resolution requesting a third-party environmental justice audit for the 2026 AGM scheduled 2026-05-07 [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit]. The PRI investor coalition tracker also lists a parallel resolution on community impacts related to environmental injustice, with the same AGM date [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream].

Most recent disclosures appear in the 2026-05-06 10-Q filing, which references an unspecified incident under environmental remediation contingencies, with insurance coverage and immaterial recorded reserves as of March 31, 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. The 10-Q states the company is "continuing to assess the impact on the environment and our business" and characterizes contingencies as immaterial while flagging that resolution of related claims and litigation could result in additional charges in future periods. The same filing addresses the U.S. Supreme Court's February 20, 2026 ruling invalidating certain IEEPA tariffs, with approximately $500 million in refund requests filed beginning April 20, 2026 — a separate matter from environmental compliance but material to the broader regulatory posture disclosed to investors [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

The 24-month window pulls from quarterly noncompliance markers in EPA ECHO across 547 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Specific federal and state actions of record include the following.

October 19, 2022 — EPA Headquarters announcement (Washington, DC): Consent Agreement and Final Order resolving alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and the territory of Puerto Rico. Program: RCRA Subtitle C. Cited violations included failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste. The order required UPS to implement environmental policies to prevent future noncompliance [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. The Consent Agreement and Final Order document is posted at EPA's enforcement portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

June 16, 2021 — EPA Region 6 (Dallas, TX): Settlement with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. covering 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Program: RCRA. Civil penalty: $3.8 million. Compliance window: 24 months. EPA noted Respondents cooperated and agreed to enhanced compliance programs [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Riverside County, CA — District Attorney's office: UPS and affiliates ordered to pay $1.745 million for environmental violations [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation]. Specific dates and program citations are documented at the county source.

The 24-month aggregate penalty figure of $528.5 million in the EPA exporter is a derivation product (penalty_24mo = total_5yr × 24/60) and should be treated as a prorated estimate, not a sum of distinct adjudicated actions [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Quarterly RCRA noncompliance markers across the 547-facility footprint produce the 190 violation-quarters figure, capped at 8 quarters per facility per the documented derivation. Specific facility-level dispositions for the 24-month window are not enumerated in the bundled dataset; cross-reference to facility-specific ECHO detail pages is required for per-facility outcomes.

The supplied bundle provides 50 EPA Facility Registry IDs but no facility names, addresses, EJ scores, or per-facility violation counts. Top-5 selection by EJ exposure or violation count is therefore not directly derivable from the snapshot (ej_index_avg=0.0, top_pollutants empty). The following are the first five Registry IDs in the source array, presented as candidate facilities for further per-site research.

Facility Registry ID 110001340567 — listed in the EPA ECHO exporter array for UPS NAICS 492110 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. State, address, and program-specific compliance posture require lookup at echo.epa.gov against this Registry ID. Without the underlying ECHO detail JSON, no specific violations, EJ score, or pollutant profile can be reported in this briefing.

Facility Registry ID 110005015606 — present in the exporter dataset [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The supplied bundle does not include the FRS-to-FACILITY_NAME mapping required to identify the site. The same limitation applies to all 50 enumerated Registry IDs.

Facility Registry ID 110000891063 — present in the exporter array [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Per-facility violation counts in the source bundle aggregate at the corporate level (190 violation-quarters across all 547 facilities), not at the per-site level.

Facility Registry ID 110004953346 — present in the exporter array [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. EJ Index by census block group is not populated in the supplied snapshot; the corporate ej_index_avg field returns 0.0 because of null-handling in the source export rather than a measured absence of EJ exposure.

Facility Registry ID 110049376929 — present in the exporter array [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The 2022 nationwide consent order resolved alleged violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states; facility-level alignment between that order and the current 547-facility ECHO universe requires a join on Registry ID that is not provided in the bundle [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The supplied EPA ECHO snapshot returns an empty top_pollutants array. Substance identification therefore relies on the documented program citations from the 2022 nationwide consent order and the 2021 Region 6 settlement, both brought under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for hazardous waste violations.

Hazardous Waste — Land Disposal Restrictions (RCRA Subtitle C). The October 2022 consent agreement specifically cited failure to make land disposal determinations [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. RCRA-regulated hazardous wastes at parcel-handling facilities typically include damaged-shipment residues, contaminated absorbents, and miscellaneous chemical containers from inbound shipments. EPA regulates these substances under 40 CFR Parts 260-273. Exposure pathways at distribution facilities center on workplace inhalation and dermal contact during package handling, and on groundwater pathways when on-site management is non-compliant. EJ implications: package sortation hubs are frequently sited in industrial-zoned districts adjacent to lower-income census tracts, a pattern flagged in the As You Sow shareholder resolution requesting a third-party environmental justice audit [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) and Mobile-Source Emissions. While not enumerated in the ECHO snapshot, UPS operates a large diesel and alternative-fuel delivery fleet. The 2024 GRI Report references progress against a 2025 alternative-fuel target and a 2050 carbon-neutrality goal [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf]. EPA classifies DPM as a likely human carcinogen with documented respiratory and cardiovascular effects. Exposure concentrates near distribution centers, fleet yards, and high-traffic corridors — communities adjacent to these facilities bear the marginal exposure burden, an issue specifically referenced in the PRI tracker resolution on community impacts at UPS [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream].

On-Site Management of Hazardous Waste — Container, Storage, Recordkeeping. The 2022 consent agreement language cited improper on-site management as a category distinct from land disposal determination failures [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Specific substances vary by site and by category of waste accumulated; identifying chemicals at the FRS level requires per-facility ECHO detail lookups not provided in the bundle.

The supplied NAICS 492110 peer set returns three rows that all appear to be UPS legal-entity name variants rather than independent industry competitors; FedEx Corporation, USPS, and regional LTL operators are not present in this peer slice [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The combined penalty exposure across the three rows is $22.8 million over 24 months across 37 facilities and 20 violation-quarters — a fraction of the parent-rollup figure of $528.5 million across 547 facilities and 190 violation-quarters. The discrepancy reflects how the EPA ECHO universe attributes facilities to legal-entity strings: parcel-handling facility ownership and operating responsibility are split across multiple registered names, and the rollup figure aggregates the full corporate footprint. Industry-relative ranking against true peer carriers requires a separate NAICS sweep that joins on parent-entity rather than legal-name string matching.

UPS Item 1A in the FY2025 10-K filed February 17, 2026 frames forward-looking risk in standard cautionary language, directing investors to monitor the company's investor relations site for material disclosures and stating that the company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The Item 1 Business Overview discloses the December 2025 USPS final-mile delivery agreement for Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes starting 2026, the completed acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group, and continued expansion of the Smart Package Smart Facility RFID program across 5,500 UPS Store locations and U.S. package cars [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Specific environmental risk factor language from the full Item 1A subsection is not contained in the supplied excerpt; readers should consult the full filing for environmental, climate, and regulatory risk subsections. The 2026-05-06 10-Q separately discloses approximately $500 million in IEEPA tariff refund requests filed following the February 20, 2026 Supreme Court ruling [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].