UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - BUFFALO GATEWAY- NYCHE

United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS; CIK 0001090727) operates the Buffalo Gateway-NYCHE facility in Cheektowaga, New York, classified under NAICS 488190 (Support Activities for Air Transportation). EPA ECHO records indicate zero formal violations at this specific facility over the trailing 24 months, with a derived penalty figure of $2,120,000 allocated pro rata from a five-year enforcement total (derivation: total_5yr*(24/60)) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No active permits appear in the current ECHO exporter snapshot dated May 4, 2026, and no top pollutants are tagged in the facility profile [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. At the enterprise level, UPS delivered 5.2 billion packages and reported $88.7 billion of revenue in 2025, per its Form 10-K filed February 17, 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

The enforcement backdrop for the parent entity is more substantive than the Cheektowaga facility snapshot alone suggests. EPA Region 6 announced a June 2021 settlement with UPS and TForce Freight requiring corrective action across 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas under the hazardous waste program, with a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. That settlement remains the most significant publicly documented federal action against UPS in the environmental record. New York state-level aggregate compliance data, compiled from EPA feeds by a third-party tracker, shows 23,494 violations and $361.4 million in total penalties across 157,117 regulated facilities statewide, providing useful context for the Cheektowaga footprint [source: https://pollutionscan.com/state/NY]. Equity performance into early May 2026 turned sharply negative, with shares falling 9.68% on May 4, 2026 following Amazon's launch of a competing Supply Chain Services line and softer Q1 2026 GAAP earnings [source: https://www.tradingkey.com/news/market-movers/261853359-market-movers-ups-20260504].

The Buffalo Gateway-NYCHE facility (FRS Registry ID 110004520251) carries no recorded quarters of non-compliance in the 24 months preceding the May 4, 2026 ECHO exporter snapshot. The $2.12 million penalty figure reported for the 24-month window is a pro-rata derivation — penalty_24mo = total_5yr * (24/60) — rather than a discrete assessment tied to a specific order at this address [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No active Title V, NPDES, or RCRA permits appear in the ECHO exporter record for this facility. The EJ index average is populated as 0.0, which in ECHO convention typically signals an unpopulated field rather than a confirmed zero-exposure reading [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The past 24 months of enforcement activity for UPS as a parent entity centers on legacy and multi-state matters rather than new actions at the Cheektowaga site. The most recent publicly documented federal EPA settlement of significance remains the June 16, 2021 Region 6 consent agreement. Under that agreement, UPS and TForce Freight, Inc. accepted a 24-month corrective-action timeline and a $3.8 million civil penalty for alleged hazardous waste handling violations spanning 183 facilities across five states [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. That action predates the current reporting window. During 2024, community-impact reporting documented concerns about cumulative diesel emissions and truck traffic from new UPS, FedEx, and Amazon last-mile warehouses in New York City boroughs, though those reports do not identify specific EPA orders tied to UPS's Buffalo-area operations [source: https://www.dcquake.com/news/environment/amazon-fedex-and-ups-deliver-new-nyc-warehouses-bringing-a-package-of-environmental-challenges/]. In October 2025, separate New York State Department of Environmental Conservation filings for GE-legacy sites in Buffalo — NYSDEC Site No. 915151, covering 318 Urban Street — were issued, illustrating the active state-level remediation environment in which UPS's Cheektowaga logistics footprint operates. Those specific filings concern General Electric and not UPS [source: https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/data/DecDocs/915151/Report.HW.915151.2025-10-31.PRR_and_IC-EC_Certification.pdf].

At the enterprise level, UPS's Form 10-K filed February 17, 2026 for fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 describes the company's global integrated network, $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue, and strategic acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group. The Item 1A excerpt made available does not disclose a specific environmental enforcement accrual at the facility level [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. UPS's most recent Form 10-Q, filed November 5, 2025 for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, similarly contains no environmental-specific excerpt in the bundled research record [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. Statewide aggregate data indicates that New York EPA-regulated facilities have absorbed $361.4 million in cumulative penalties across all programs tracked to date [source: https://pollutionscan.com/state/NY].

No facility-specific federal enforcement action dated within the trailing 24 months — May 2024 through May 2026 — has been identified in the research record for the Buffalo Gateway-NYCHE site. The ECHO exporter returns zero quarters of non-compliance for this facility and zero formal actions over that window. The $2.12 million penalty attribution reflects a pro-rata allocation of a five-year total rather than a newly imposed assessment, calculated as penalty_24mo = total_5yr * (24/60) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

For historical context at the UPS parent level, the EPA Region 6 settlement announced June 16, 2021 remains the most substantive publicly available action. UPS and TForce Freight, Inc. agreed to resolve alleged RCRA hazardous waste regulatory violations across 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, accepting a 24-month corrective-action window and a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. That action predates the 24-month reporting window for this briefing. No Clean Air Act Title V, Clean Water Act NPDES, or RCRA enforcement orders naming the Cheektowaga location appear in the EPA facility-detail records surfaced for NYLIC and adjacent UPS New York facilities [source: https://frs-public.epa.gov/ords/frs_public2/fii_query_detail.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110001594169]. The derived $2.12 million 24-month penalty figure should be read as a methodological artifact rather than as a discrete enforcement outcome.

Buffalo Gateway-NYCHE (Cheektowaga, NY; FRS Registry ID 110004520251) is the sole facility covered by this briefing. ECHO records show no recorded violations in the trailing 24-month window, no active permits flagged in the current exporter snapshot, and no populated top-pollutant tags [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility sits within Erie County, New York, adjacent to the Buffalo-Niagara logistics corridor. NYSDEC is concurrently administering legacy industrial remediation at unrelated GE sites nearby — NYSDEC Site Nos. 915151 and 915244 — a fact that underscores the active regulatory environment surrounding the corridor without implicating UPS's Cheektowaga operations directly [source: https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/data/DecDocs/915151/Report.HW.915151.2025-10-31.PRR_and_IC-EC_Certification.pdf] [source: https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/docs/remediation_hudson_pdf/915244fs.pdf].

Comparative UPS New York facilities surfaced in the FRS query include the Queen North-NYLIC location, which carries its own Environmental Interest registrations separate from Cheektowaga [source: https://frs-public.epa.gov/ords/frs_public2/fii_query_detail.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110001594169]. No additional UPS facilities were included in the scope of this briefing. No EJ index values were populated for the Cheektowaga site in the ECHO exporter record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Community-impact coverage of last-mile logistics expansion in New York has focused primarily on New York City rather than the Buffalo metropolitan area, leaving the Cheektowaga site with limited independent third-party environmental documentation in the current research record [source: https://www.dcquake.com/news/environment/amazon-fedex-and-ups-deliver-new-nyc-warehouses-bringing-a-package-of-environmental-challenges/].

The ECHO exporter snapshot returns no top_pollutants for the Buffalo Gateway-NYCHE facility, reflecting either the absence of a TRI filer designation at this location or an unpopulated field in the exporter join [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That data gap does not resolve the question of what emissions the facility generates — it simply marks the boundary of what ECHO currently reports.

In the broader UPS operational profile, three pollutant categories are historically associated with package sorting, aircraft ground support, and fleet yards. First, diesel particulate matter from delivery vehicles and ground support equipment: EPA identifies this as a mobile-source air toxic with documented cardiopulmonary exposure pathways in communities near logistics corridors. Second, RCRA-regulated hazardous waste streams from vehicle maintenance and damaged-parcel handling — the category that formed the basis of the June 16, 2021 Region 6 consent agreement covering 183 facilities and carrying a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Third, stormwater discharges from paved sorting-yard surfaces, typically regulated under Clean Water Act multi-sector general permits. None of these pollutant categories is currently tagged against the Cheektowaga facility in ECHO [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Environmental justice implications for logistics facilities in the Northeast have been documented in independent reporting, which identifies diesel truck traffic and warehouse siting as recurring community-impact issues in New York City boroughs [source: https://www.dcquake.com/news/environment/amazon-fedex-and-ups-deliver-new-nyc-warehouses-bringing-a-package-of-environmental-challenges/]. The ECHO EJ index average for the Cheektowaga facility is reported as 0.0, which in the absence of other indicators should be read as unpopulated rather than affirmatively low-exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

No NAICS 488190 peer rows were returned in the research bundle, so a direct violation-count and penalty-total comparison cannot be constructed from the provided data. Statewide context for New York shows 23,494 violations and $361,419,144 in cumulative penalties across 157,117 EPA-regulated facilities, against which the Cheektowaga facility's zero 24-month violation count is materially below statewide per-facility averages [source: https://pollutionscan.com/state/NY]. A fuller peer comparison would require pulling NAICS 488190 cohort data directly from the ECHO exporter [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS's Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026, includes Item 1A risk factor disclosures referencing forward-looking statements on several fronts: strategic execution, network optimization through RFID-enabled Smart Package Smart Facility technology, the December 2025 agreement with the United States Postal Service for final-mile delivery of Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026, and acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group. The bundled excerpt does not isolate a discrete environmental-liability forward risk paragraph. Investors should consult the full Item 1A section for climate, regulatory, and litigation risk language [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].