UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - CABAK

United Parcel Service — Cabak (Bakersfield, CA) appears in EPA ECHO as a single-facility record (FRS ID 110002805064) with zero quarters of noncompliance in the trailing 24 months, zero active permits, a most-recent permit action dated November 8, 2023, and a derived 24-month penalty allocation of $2,120,000 drawn from a five-year total apportioned pro-rata [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The EJ index average for the facility is reported as 0.0 in the ECHO extract. That figure reflects an absence of populated EJSCREEN indicators on the single record — not an affirmative finding of low community exposure. The Bakersfield entity is one node within UPS's North American ground network; the corporate parent reported $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and delivered an average of 20.8 million packages per day [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

The enforcement backdrop is dominated by parent-level actions rather than facility-specific findings. EPA Region 6 announced a 2021 settlement with UPS and TForce Freight covering 183 locations across five states and a $3.8 million civil penalty for alleged Resource Conservation and Recovery Act violations [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. EPA then announced a nationwide RCRA settlement in October 2022 [source: https://epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. On August 4, 2025, the Riverside County District Attorney — acting alongside 43 other California DAs — obtained a $1.745 million judgment against UPS entities in San Joaquin County Superior Court over unlawful hazardous-waste disposal [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation]. As You Sow filed a November 13, 2025 shareholder resolution seeking a third-party environmental-justice audit [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

The compliance record at the Bakersfield (Cabak) node is narrow. ECHO's exporter extract shows the facility carrying zero quarters of noncompliance in the trailing eight quarters and no active permits, with the most recent permit-related date logged as November 8, 2023 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2,120,000 figure attached to this facility in the bundle is a derivation — total five-year penalty scaled by 24/60 — and should not be read as a site-specific adjudicated penalty; the methodology is disclosed in the ECHO exporter documentation [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act enforcement entries appear on the Cabak row in the supplied extract.

Three externally documented events structure the past 24 months of UPS-related environmental activity. First, in October 2022, EPA announced a nationwide settlement with UPS covering RCRA hazardous-waste management violations, extending the Region 6 framework established in June 2021 to additional states [source: https://epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide] [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Second, on August 4, 2025, the Riverside County District Attorney announced that UPS, UPS Supply Chain Solutions General Services, Inc., and UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. were ordered to pay $1.745 million in civil penalties, costs, and Supplemental Environmental Project funding following a multi-county California DA investigation into unlawful disposal of hazardous waste; the judgment was entered in San Joaquin County Superior Court [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation]. Third, on November 13, 2025, As You Sow filed a shareholder resolution requesting UPS commission a third-party environmental-justice audit, citing pollution-management risk as financially material [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

Operational context from the past 12 months reframes these figures. UPS announced in early 2026 that it will close 27 additional parcel facilities that year, bringing planned 2026 closures to 51 distribution centers [source: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-to-close-27-additional-parcel-facilities-in-2026]. The company also disclosed a December 2025 agreement with USPS for final-mile delivery of a portion of Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. These network changes alter the geographic footprint against which future ECHO data will be measured. Closed facilities will continue to carry legacy RCRA generator-status obligations during decommissioning, and the 2021 Region 6 consent agreement required compliance across all 183 locations within 24 months [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The Bakersfield node sits within California's air-quality enforcement perimeter — specifically the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast airsheds — where state-level hazardous-waste scrutiny, as evidenced by the Riverside-led DA action, runs in parallel to federal ECHO tracking [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation].

Action 1 — EPA Region 6 RCRA settlement, announced June 16, 2021. Respondents: United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. Geographic scope: 183 facilities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Civil penalty: $3,800,000. Program: RCRA (hazardous waste). Terms: 24-month compliance corrective period; enhanced noncompliance-management programs required [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Action 2 — EPA nationwide RCRA settlement, announced October 19, 2022. Respondent: United Parcel Service. Program: RCRA. The announcement extended hazardous-waste compliance obligations beyond Region 6; EPA characterized the matter as correcting alleged violations of hazardous-waste management requirements [source: https://epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Third-party compliance commentary summarizing the consent agreement is available [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right].

Action 3 — People of the State of California v. United Parcel Service, et al., judgment announced August 4, 2025, filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court. Plaintiffs: 44 California District Attorneys, led on announcement by Riverside County DA Mike Hestrin. Defendants: United Parcel Service, Inc.; UPS Supply Chain Solutions General Services, Inc.; UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. Total ordered: $1,745,000 in civil penalties, costs, and Supplemental Environmental Project funding. Subject matter: unlawful disposal of hazardous waste at California facilities [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation].

At the Bakersfield (Cabak) FRS ID 110002805064 specifically, the ECHO extract records zero quarters of noncompliance across the trailing eight-quarter window and no open formal enforcement actions in the supplied data [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2,120,000 figure in the summary block is an apportioned slice of a longer penalty horizon under the exporter derivation `penalty_24mo=total_5yr*(24/60)`. It is not a discrete site-level fine [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS — Cabak, Bakersfield, CA (FRS 110002805064). The sole facility in this corporate slug's ECHO record. The extract reports zero violations in the trailing 24 months, zero active permits, a latest permit-related date of November 8, 2023, and an EJ index average recorded as 0.0 — indicating absence of populated EJSCREEN values on the record rather than verified low-burden status [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Bakersfield sits in Kern County within the San Joaquin Valley air basin, a federal ozone and PM2.5 nonattainment area. Facility-level air permitting at ground package terminals is generally handled through the local air district rather than through federal Title V, which is consistent with the absence of active permits in the federal ECHO record.

Peer node — UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS), 11 facilities, eight 24-month violations, $10.64 million derived 24-month penalty total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. This is the heaviest enforcement-weighted UPS corporate slug in the NAICS 492110 peer set supplied.

Peer node — UNITED PARCEL SERVICES, 10 facilities, six 24-month violations, $6.42 million derived 24-month penalty total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Peer node — UNITED PARCEL SVC, 16 facilities under NAICS 49211, six 24-month violations, $5.76 million derived 24-month penalty total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Related geographic exposure — South Stockton, CA. Academic and NGO literature documents truck-pollution burden from logistics corridors in South Stockton, a community adjacent to the San Joaquin County venue where the August 2025 California DA judgment against UPS was filed [source: https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v12y2023i8p440-d1209080.html] [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation].

The ECHO extract for Cabak lists no top pollutants, consistent with the absence of Title V or NPDES active permits on this record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Three pollutant categories dominate parcel-logistics ESG exposure at the enterprise level. First, RCRA-regulated hazardous waste: the June 2021 Region 6 settlement and the October 2022 nationwide settlement both target hazardous-waste generator compliance — satellite accumulation, labeling, manifesting, and universal-waste handling at package sortation sites [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement] [source: https://epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. The August 2025 California judgment centered on unlawful disposal of hazardous waste, a parallel state-law exposure pathway [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation].

Second, diesel particulate matter and NOx from ground fleet operations. UPS's 2021 ESG highlights brochure set a 40% alternative-fuel target for ground operations by 2025 and a 50% CO2-per-package reduction by 2035 against a 2020 baseline [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/assets/social-impact/2021-esg-highlights-brochure/en_en_2021SustainabilityBrochure_V15.pdf.pdf]. Diesel PM is the primary near-road exposure pathway around logistics terminals. It is also the pollutant category implicated by NGO work on South Stockton truck pollution [source: https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v12y2023i8p440-d1209080.html].

Third, aviation-derived emissions from UPS's integrated air network. The 2021 brochure set a 30% sustainable aviation fuel target by 2035 [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/assets/social-impact/2021-esg-highlights-brochure/en_en_2021SustainabilityBrochure_V15.pdf.pdf]. Airside emissions are not captured in the ground-facility ECHO record for Cabak but remain material at the enterprise level.

Within the NAICS 492110 (and 49211) UPS-branded peer set supplied by ECHO, the Cabak single-facility slug sits at the low end on violation count — zero, versus six to eight for multi-facility slugs — and at the low end on derived 24-month penalty allocation, at $2.12 million versus $5.76 million to $10.64 million [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The peer figures are themselves derivations under the same `penalty_24mo=total_5yr*(24/60)` methodology and should be read as proportional exposure indicators rather than adjudicated enterprise-level fines [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. All four UPS slugs carry an ECHO-reported EJ index average of 0.0, which reflects unpopulated EJSCREEN fields across the records rather than a substantive low-burden finding.

UPS's 2025 10-K, filed February 17, 2026, directs investors to monitor its Investor Relations website for material disclosures under Regulation FD and warns against undue reliance on forward-looking statements, noting the company "does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances, changes in expectations or the occurrence of unanticipated events after the date of those statements, except as required by law" [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The filing emphasizes network transformation via RFID-based Smart Package Smart Facility technology, expansion of healthcare cold-chain capabilities through the Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions, and the December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement for Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Forward environmental risk sits at the intersection of two concrete pressures: network consolidation — 51 parcel facilities slated for 2026 closure per FreightWaves [source: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-to-close-27-additional-parcel-facilities-in-2026] — and continuing state-level hazardous-waste enforcement exposure demonstrated by the August 2025 California judgment [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation].