UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - CABAR

United Parcel Service's Barstow, California facility (ECHO registry ID 110070796406) operates within UPS's U.S. Domestic Package segment, a unit that contributed to the $88.7 billion in 2025 consolidated revenue disclosed in the parent company's most recent annual report [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. EPA ECHO data as of May 4, 2026 records zero formal quarterly non-compliance flags attributable to the Barstow site over the trailing 24 months. A derived penalty allocation of $2.12 million reflects a proportional share of five-year civil penalties attributable to this facility ID under ECHO's standard derivation methodology [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The site carries no active EPA-administered permits in the current ECHO extract.

That single-facility picture sits inside a materially larger corporate enforcement footprint. On June 16, 2021, EPA Region 6 announced a settlement requiring UPS and TForce Freight to correct alleged Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations across 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, attaching a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. A follow-on October 19, 2022 nationwide RCRA settlement then covered 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, primarily for hazardous-waste generator-category misclassifications [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide] [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right]. Scale matters here. Those two actions together touch nearly every major UPS domestic operating location, and Barstow is not exempt from the corporate compliance obligations they imposed. Against that backdrop, the Barstow EJ index average of 0.0 in the ECHO extract reflects a data-completeness gap rather than a demographic finding and should not be read as an exposure clearance.

Reading the Barstow compliance record requires two distinct layers: the single-facility ECHO entry and the corporate RCRA enforcement history that continues to govern hazardous-waste handling at all U.S. UPS sites, including Barstow. On the facility-specific layer, ECHO's May 4, 2026 extract shows zero quarters with non-compliance over the trailing 24 months and no currently active Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act or RCRA permits listed under ID 110070796406 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million figure in the top-line summary is an allocation derived from ECHO's formula penalty_24mo=total_5yr*(24/60). It is not an adjudicated penalty against Barstow alone [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The 24-month corporate narrative opens on October 19, 2022, when EPA's headquarters settlement resolved alleged RCRA violations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. The core allegation set involved misclassification of hazardous-waste generator status — treating sites as Very Small Quantity Generators or Small Quantity Generators when aggregated waste volumes would have required Large Quantity Generator controls — with downstream failures in accumulation time limits, labeling, contingency planning and manifesting [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide] [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right]. Under that agreement, UPS was required to implement corporate-wide environmental management system changes applicable to all U.S. operating locations, Barstow included.

The 2023–2025 window brought continued regulatory attention to logistics-hub emissions in California. California Air Resources Board (CARB) comments filed February 20, 2023 on the Pepper 210 Commerce Center DEIR in San Bernardino County illustrate the review framework CARB applies to warehouse and parcel-distribution land-use changes in the Inland Empire corridor that includes Barstow [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/CARB%20Comments%20on%20the%20NOP%20for%20the%20Pepper%20210%20Commerce%20Center%20DEIR.pdf]. The As You Sow third-party environmental justice audit of UPS, referenced in shareholder engagement materials, placed corporate-level attention on facility-siting and diesel-corridor exposure questions relevant to high-throughput western U.S. hubs [source: https://www.asyousow.org]. UPS's 2024 GRI Report, filed for the January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024 reporting period, is the primary corporate document against which ECHO and EPA enforcement data should be compared [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf]. The February 17, 2026 Form 10-K, covering fiscal year 2025, does not disclose new material environmental proceedings in the Item 1A excerpt reviewed, and the November 5, 2025 Form 10-Q environmental-disclosure field is empty in the extract [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm] [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].

June 16, 2021 — EPA Region 6 administrative settlement. Respondents: United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. Program: RCRA Subtitle C (hazardous waste). Scope: 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. Outcome: 24-month compliance schedule plus enhanced corporate compliance program. Civil penalty: $3.8 million [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. October 19, 2022 — EPA headquarters settlement. Respondent: United Parcel Service, Inc. Program: RCRA. Scope: 1,160 UPS facilities in 45 states plus Puerto Rico. Core allegations: hazardous-waste generator-category misclassification and associated recordkeeping, accumulation, labeling and contingency-plan deficiencies. Outcome: corporate environmental management system commitments and corrective action [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Independent compliance-audit commentary on the 2022 settlement notes that the root-cause issue was inventory classification rather than release events — a distinction that affects how residual risk is priced in subsequent reviews [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right]. That framing matters: classification errors can persist silently across large facility networks until an audit cycle surfaces them, which is precisely what the 2021 and 2022 actions demonstrated at scale.

For the Barstow facility specifically (ID 110070796406), the ECHO extract records zero formal violations in the trailing 24 months and assigns a derived $2.12 million allocation representing a share of the 60-month settlement-penalty pool, not a site-adjudicated fine [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No CWA NPDES, CAA Title V or Superfund CERCLA matters appear in the ECHO record for this facility ID in the current extract.

UPS Barstow, California (ECHO ID 110070796406) is the single facility in this record. ECHO lists zero quarters of non-compliance over 24 months, no active permits, and an EJ index average of 0.0 — a value that reflects missing EJScreen linkage rather than demographic clearance [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Barstow sits on the I-15 corridor, a primary diesel freight route connecting Southern California ports to Las Vegas. That geography places the site squarely within the San Bernardino County logistics airshed that CARB has repeatedly identified as a priority for warehouse and parcel-hub emissions review [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/CARB%20Comments%20on%20the%20NOP%20for%20the%20Pepper%20210%20Commerce%20Center%20DEIR.pdf].

The peer set sharpens the picture. The entity registered as UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) spans 11 sites, carries eight violations over 24 months and $10.64 million in derived penalties — sitting above the Barstow entity on both enforcement counts and dollar exposure, and serving as the reference point for corporate-level RCRA residual risk [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The entity registered as UNITED PARCEL SERVICES covers 10 sites, six violations and $6.42 million in derived 24-month penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The entity registered as UNITED PARCEL SVC spans 16 sites under NAICS 49211, six violations and $5.76 million in derived penalties — the largest peer by facility count in the benchmark set [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The fifth reference point is the Inland Empire warehouse-and-distribution cohort subject to CARB's Indirect Source Rule framework. The Pepper 210 Commerce Center CARB comment letter, dated February 20, 2023, is a documented template showing the air-quality review scope CARB applies to new and expanded parcel-handling sites in San Bernardino County — the same county where Barstow operates [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/CARB%20Comments%20on%20the%20NOP%20for%20the%20Pepper%20210%20Commerce%20Center%20DEIR.pdf].

The ECHO top_pollutants field for Barstow is empty, so the relevant toxicity profile is drawn from the pollutant classes identified in the 2021 and 2022 RCRA settlements that govern UPS's hazardous-waste handling corporate-wide. Class one: ignitable and corrosive liquids (RCRA waste codes D001, D002), typically arising in parcel-handling from damaged shipments of aerosols, batteries and adhesives. The exposure pathway is principally worker contact and transport-incident release. Generator-category misclassification for this waste stream was the central allegation in the October 19, 2022 settlement [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Class two: lithium-battery and electronic-waste residuals — universal waste and D-code toxicity-characteristic metals including lead and mercury. Fire risk in transit is the acute exposure pathway; downstream landfill leaching is the chronic one if waste is mismanaged. EPA compliance guidance emphasizes accumulation-time and labeling controls as the first line of containment for this class [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right].

Class three: diesel particulate matter and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from line-haul and yard operations. These are not RCRA pollutants, but they are the dominant community-exposure pathway at California logistics hubs. CARB's warehouse-emissions review framework, as applied in the February 2023 Pepper 210 Commerce Center comment letter, identifies PM2.5, diesel PM and oxides of nitrogen as priority pollutants for environmental-justice-adjacent siting decisions in San Bernardino County [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/CARB%20Comments%20on%20the%20NOP%20for%20the%20Pepper%20210%20Commerce%20Center%20DEIR.pdf]. Center for Public Integrity reporting on California environmental-justice histories documents the cumulative-burden concern in agricultural and logistics corridors, providing the policy context within which CARB's review framework operates [source: https://publicintegrity.org/environment/pollution/environmental-justice-denied/the-decades-long-fight-in-a-community-treated-as-a-dumping-ground].

Within NAICS 492110, the Barstow single-facility entity shows zero 24-month violations and a derived $2.12 million penalty share — materially below the three larger UPS-registered entities in the peer set. Those three carry eight, six and six violations respectively, with derived penalties of $10.64 million, $6.42 million and $5.76 million, all downstream of the October 2022 nationwide RCRA settlement [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip] [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Every peer shows an EJ index average of 0.0, which uniformly indicates missing EJScreen demographic linkage in the ECHO export rather than an attained exposure baseline.

UPS's Form 10-K filed February 17, 2026 for fiscal year 2025 reiterates standard forward-looking-statement cautions and emphasizes the "Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven" strategy, the December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement, and the Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions. The Item 1A excerpt reviewed does not isolate a new material environmental proceeding beyond the general risk framing applicable to a global logistics network serving over 200 countries, delivering 5.2 billion packages in 2025 at $88.7 billion in revenue [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The November 5, 2025 Form 10-Q environmental-disclosure field in the research bundle is empty [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. That absence does not close the forward risk picture. The October 2022 RCRA settlement imposed ongoing corporate environmental management system obligations across all U.S. locations, and CARB's expanding Indirect Source Rule framework continues to apply heightened air-quality scrutiny to parcel-distribution hubs in San Bernardino County — the county where Barstow operates. Both factors remain live compliance considerations for the facility in the periods ahead.