UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - BRISTOL

United Parcel Service's Bristol, Virginia node (EPA Facility ID 110005250432) sits inside NAICS 492110 (couriers and express delivery) and belongs to a parent filer with $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and average daily volume of 20.8 million packages [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Those scale figures matter because they frame what the Bristol facility's compliance record actually shows: EPA ECHO's exporter dataset, as of 4 May 2026, records zero quarters of noncompliance at the Bristol location over the trailing 24 months and no active permits. It does, however, attribute $2.12 million in apportioned five-year penalty exposure to the site, derived through the ECHO formula `penalty_24mo = total_5yr*(24/60)` rather than any dated adjudication at this address [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The last recorded permit action at the facility is dated 24 May 2022.

The Bristol record cannot be read in isolation. Two parent-level enforcement settlements define the broader compliance backdrop. First, a 16 June 2021 Region 6 consent agreement covered 183 UPS and TForce Freight locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, carrying a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month corrective window [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Second, and larger in scope, a 19 October 2022 nationwide Consent Agreement and Final Order resolved alleged Resource Conservation and Recovery Act violations at 1,160 UPS facilities spanning 45 states and Puerto Rico [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Neither action names the Bristol, Virginia facility specifically, but both shape the parent-entity risk profile against which this node is assessed.

One geographic confusion warrants direct correction. The city of Bristol, Virginia — not UPS — operated the Bristol Quarry Landfill, a former stone-quarry site that ran from 1998 to 2022 and is the subject of a February 2026 Appalachian Voices report documenting odor and leachate concerns [source: https://appvoices.org/2026/02/17/the-beast-of-bristol-saga-continues/]. EPA Region III's removal action at the 11184 Bristol Air site, documented through Polrep #6, addresses that same municipal location [source: https://www.bristolva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3528/11184BristolAir_polrep_6]. Both records are geographically adjacent to the UPS courier facility but are not attributable to it.

EPA ECHO's facility-level record for United Parcel Service – Bristol (ID 110005250432) shows `violation_count_24mo = 0`, `active_permits_count = 0`, and `ej_index_avg = 0.0`, with `penalty_total_24mo = $2,120,000` derived by proportional allocation of a five-year penalty figure across 24 of 60 months — not by a dated adjudication at this address [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No quarterly noncompliance flags and no top pollutants appear in the exporter extract as of 4 May 2026. The latest permit timestamp associated with the facility record is 24 May 2022.

A chronological read of the past 24 months at the parent-company level begins with the 19 October 2022 nationwide Consent Agreement and Final Order between EPA and UPS. That order resolved RCRA allegations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, citing failure to make land disposal determinations and on-site hazardous-waste management deficiencies, and obligated UPS to implement corrective environmental policies going forward [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. That federal action followed the 16 June 2021 Region 6 settlement with UPS and TForce Freight, which covered 183 locations and imposed a $3.8 million civil penalty with a 24-month compliance runway [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. A separate 3 March 2021 EPA Region III announcement assessed $44,880 in RCRA penalties against an unrelated UCT facility in Bristol, Pennsylvania — name proximity only, with no connection to any UPS asset [source: https://epa.gov/newsreleases/hazardous-waste-violations-uct-facility-bristol-pa-result-44880-penalty].

On the disclosure side, UPS filed its 2024 GRI Report on 20 March 2025 and its FY2025 10-K on 17 February 2026 [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf] [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q dated 5 November 2025 contains no environmental-litigation excerpt in the extracted text [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. In the Bristol, Virginia community itself, the February 2026 Appalachian Voices report on the city-operated Bristol Quarry Landfill describes continuing odor and leachate impacts from a municipal landfill built in a former stone quarry and active from 1998 through 2022; the report does not attribute these conditions to UPS [source: https://appvoices.org/2026/02/17/the-beast-of-bristol-saga-continues/]. EPA Region III Polrep #6 for the 11184 Bristol Air removal action, covering the period through December 2021, corroborates federal involvement at that municipal site [source: https://www.bristolva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3528/11184BristolAir_polrep_6].

At the facility level, UPS Bristol, VA (ID 110005250432) carries a clean slate in the ECHO extract window. Zero quarters of noncompliance appear in the trailing 24 months, and no formal enforcement actions are dated to this address [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million figure is a derived 24-of-60-month apportionment of five-year penalty exposure under ECHO's documented methodology — not a site-specific adjudicated fine. Readers should treat it as a statistical allocation whose accuracy depends on the quality of the underlying five-year data.

At the parent-entity level, two RCRA actions define the enforcement record. First, on 19 October 2022, EPA announced a Consent Agreement and Final Order with United Parcel Service, Inc. resolving alleged hazardous-waste violations at 1,160 facilities in 45 states and Puerto Rico. The cited deficiencies included failure to make land disposal determinations and on-site management shortfalls; the order requires compliance programs designed to prevent recurrence [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Second, on 16 June 2021, EPA Region 6 reached a settlement with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. covering 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. The civil penalty totaled $3.8 million, with a 24-month corrective window attached [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act enforcement against UPS produces no results in the research bundle for the trailing 24 months. The only CAA- and CERCLA-adjacent Bristol, Virginia matter in the record is the city-operated Bristol Quarry Landfill and the 11184 Bristol Air removal action — neither of which is a UPS facility [source: https://www.bristolva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3528/11184BristolAir_polrep_6] [source: https://appvoices.org/2026/02/17/the-beast-of-bristol-saga-continues/]. No court filings from PACER or CourtListener surfaced in the research bundle for UPS Bristol specifically.

UPS Bristol, VA (ID 110005250432) — NAICS 492110. ECHO reports one facility in scope, zero 24-month violations, zero active permits, and an EJ index average of 0.0 in the exporter snapshot as of 4 May 2026; the $2.12 million figure is a derived 24/60 apportionment and not a site-specific penalty [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Last permit date on file: 24 May 2022.

Peer-affiliate United Parcel Service Inc (UPS) aggregate covers 11 facilities and records 8 quarters of noncompliance in 24 months, with $10.64 million in apportioned penalties per ECHO methodology [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That aggregate slug captures the larger federal-level hazardous-waste footprint referenced in the 2022 nationwide settlement [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Peer-affiliate United Parcel Services — a distinct ECHO naming variant — covers 10 facilities, records 6 quarters of noncompliance, and carries $6.42 million in apportioned penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Naming variance across UPS's operating entities in ECHO drives much of the peer-set dispersion visible in this analysis.

Peer-affiliate United Parcel Svc accounts for 16 facilities under NAICS 49211, 6 quarters of noncompliance, and $5.76 million apportioned [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Combined, the three UPS-branded slugs in ECHO represent 38 facilities before de-duplication — a material distinction for any analyst aggregating exposure at the enterprise level.

Community context — Bristol Quarry Landfill, Bristol, VA. The city of Bristol operated this site from 1998 to 2022 inside a former stone quarry. A February 2026 Appalachian Voices report summarizes a federal public health agency finding that validated certain community pollution concerns about odor and leachate [source: https://appvoices.org/2026/02/17/the-beast-of-bristol-saga-continues/]. EPA Region III's Polrep #6 for the 11184 Bristol Air site documents federal removal-action activity through December 2021 [source: https://www.bristolva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3528/11184BristolAir_polrep_6]. These records are adjacent to, not attributable to, the UPS courier facility in Bristol.

EPA ECHO's top-pollutants array for UPS Bristol is empty in the extract, consistent with a courier hub that is not a major TRI reporter [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The parent-level exposure profile is therefore driven by hazardous-waste handling under RCRA Subtitle C rather than by stack or outfall emissions. EPA's 2022 nationwide settlement identifies failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste as the core violation categories [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Hazardous-waste streams typical of courier and freight operations include spent solvents, damaged-package residues containing ignitable or corrosive materials, lithium-battery shipments, and lead-acid batteries from ground-fleet maintenance. Each stream carries distinct exposure pathways. Accidental release during transfer, container leakage at storage areas, and improper accumulation beyond RCRA time limits are the precise categories cited in the 2021 Region 6 action covering 183 facilities [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. A single leaking drum of spent solvent at a package-sorting hub, held beyond the 90-day RCRA accumulation limit, is the kind of violation that drove both the 2021 and 2022 settlements.

EJ implications at the Bristol, VA site are undercharacterized by the available data. ECHO reports an EJ index average of 0.0 for this facility, which reflects the exporter's treatment of missing or null EJSCREEN fields rather than a substantive finding of zero demographic exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The February 2026 Appalachian Voices report documents resident concerns about odor and leachate from the unrelated, city-operated Bristol Quarry Landfill [source: https://appvoices.org/2026/02/17/the-beast-of-bristol-saga-continues/]. A full EJ read for UPS Bristol would require the EJSCREEN block-group overlay not present in the current extract.

Within NAICS 492110, the three ECHO peer slugs — all UPS-branded naming variants — together cover 37 facilities and aggregate approximately $22.8 million in 24-month apportioned penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The single Bristol, VA facility, by contrast, records zero 24-month violations and carries only the $2.12 million derived apportionment. Bristol is therefore a low-severity outlier inside a peer set whose aggregate footprint is dominated by the 2022 nationwide RCRA settlement covering 1,160 facilities [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. EJ index averages of 0.0 across all peer slugs reflect ECHO exporter nulls rather than substantive demographic findings.

The FY2025 10-K filed 17 February 2026 (accession 0001628280-26-008432) frames forward-looking risk around cautionary-statements language, directing investors to monitor the Investor Relations site and SEC filings for material updates. The Item 1A excerpt retrieved emphasizes strategic execution risks — healthcare cold-chain integration following the Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions, RFID rollout across 5,500 UPS Store locations, and the December 2025 USPS last-mile agreement starting in 2026 — rather than a dedicated environmental-compliance paragraph in the visible text [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The two open RCRA consent agreements — the October 2022 nationwide order and the June 2021 Region 6 settlement — each carry ongoing corrective-action obligations that could generate follow-on enforcement if compliance programs fall short. Analysts should read the full Item 1A and Item 3 sections for any climate-transition, RCRA-compliance, or fleet-electrification risk language not captured in the extract.