UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - CABIH

United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS; CIK 0001090727) reported $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and delivered an average of 20.8 million packages per day — 5.2 billion packages across the full year — according to the company's most recent annual report [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Those numbers frame a logistics network whose sheer scale shapes every environmental compliance figure that follows. The Bishop, California facility tied to ECHO identifier 110070452909 shows zero recorded violations in the trailing 24 months and carries no active permits in the ECHO exporter extract dated 2026-05-04, with a derived penalty allocation of $2.12 million attributable to that location under ECHO's 5-year proration methodology [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That figure reflects national enforcement activity distributed across UPS's reporting universe, not a site-specific action at the Bishop address.

The broader compliance record is defined by two multi-state federal settlements and one state court judgment. First, a 2021 EPA Region 6 RCRA consent order covered 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas and carried a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Second, a 2022 nationwide RCRA consent agreement resolved alleged violations at 1,160 facilities spanning 45 states and Puerto Rico [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Third, a California civil judgment entered August 4, 2025 in San Joaquin County Superior Court resulted in $1.745 million in penalties, costs, and supplemental project funding tied to hazardous waste disposal practices [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation]. Together, these three actions define the enforcement arc that ESG readers must weigh against UPS's forward-looking sustainability commitments. Forward-looking risk is further shaped by the December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement and the planned closure of 51 parcel distribution centers in 2026 [source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ups-close-27-additional-parcel-134020058.html], both of which will materially alter the facility and fleet footprint that generates regulated activity.

The compliance record for UPS over the past 24 months reads as a continuation of hazardous waste enforcement themes that predate the review window — not as an isolated cluster of incidents. EPA records show that on October 19, 2022, UPS entered a consent agreement and final order resolving alleged violations of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, including alleged failures to make land disposal determinations and to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. That 2022 nationwide order itself followed an earlier 2021 EPA Region 6 settlement requiring corrective action at 183 Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas locations and a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Third-party legal commentary published shortly after the 2022 order characterized the action as a reminder of the granularity required in hazardous waste compliance documentation [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right].

The most consequential enforcement event inside the 24-month window is the August 4, 2025 civil judgment announced by Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, joined by 44 California District Attorneys. 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. The judgment was entered in San Joaquin County Superior Court and resolved claims tied to unlawful disposal of hazardous waste at California package operations [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation]. California's Integrated Water Quality System tracking returns UPS-affiliated party records, though the public CIWQS extract for this party ID does not itemize active enforcement items tied to the Bishop facility [source: https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/readOnly/PublicReportPartyAtGlanceServlet?reportID=2&paagrPartyID=S48617&relRMSortDir=&relRMSortCol=11].

The Bishop, California facility — the specific site carrying ECHO ID 110070452909 associated with the UPS-CABIH registration — shows zero quarters of noncompliance in the trailing eight quarters and no active permits in the ECHO exporter snapshot as of 2026-05-04 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million penalty figure surfaced in ECHO reflects ECHO's derivation rule: total five-year penalty multiplied by 24/60. It is not a discrete fine imposed at Bishop. Two network changes during the review period will alter the compliance footprint going forward. The December 2025 agreement with the United States Postal Service to handle final-mile delivery for 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] adds volume to existing facilities. The announced 2026 closure of a cumulative 51 parcel distribution centers [source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ups-close-27-additional-parcel-134020058.html] simultaneously reduces the number of sites generating RCRA-, CWA-, and CAA-regulated activity — a contraction that will reshape the enforcement universe analysts use to benchmark future compliance performance.

Action 1 — California multi-county civil judgment (August 4, 2025). Riverside County DA Mike Hestrin, joined by 44 California District Attorneys, announced that UPS, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, General Services, Inc., and UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. were ordered to pay $1,745,000 in civil penalties, costs, and Supplemental Environmental Project funding. The judgment was filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court and resolved an investigation into the unlawful disposal of hazardous waste at California UPS facilities. Program: state hazardous waste (California Health & Safety Code analog to RCRA) [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation].

Action 2 — EPA nationwide RCRA consent agreement (October 19, 2022; within the rolling 5-year ECHO window that produces the derived 24-month allocation). EPA announced a settlement resolving violations of hazardous waste regulations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, including alleged failures to make land disposal determinations and to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste. UPS agreed to implement environmental management policies to prevent future noncompliance. Program: RCRA Subtitle C [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Action 3 — EPA Region 6 settlement (announced June 16, 2021). UPS and TForce Freight, Inc. agreed to correct alleged hazardous waste violations at 183 facilities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas and to pay a $3.8 million civil penalty, with a 24-month compliance timeline. Program: RCRA Subtitle C [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Bishop, California (ECHO ID 110070452909): zero recorded quarters of noncompliance in the eight-quarter lookback, no active permits in the ECHO exporter extract dated 2026-05-04. The $2,120,000 figure carried in the ECHO summary is a pro-rata allocation — total_5yr multiplied by 24/60 — of enforcement activity aggregated to the facility record. It is not a discrete site-level penalty [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS — Bishop, California (ECHO ID 110070452909). This is the only facility tied to the united-parcel-service-cabih registration. The ECHO exporter snapshot dated 2026-05-04 records zero violations in the trailing 24 months, no active permits, and no top-pollutant ranking. The EJ index average is reported as 0.0, which in ECHO's schema reflects either the absence of a computed EJScreen overlay for this record type or the absence of facility-level release reporting [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No CWA, CAA, or RCRA program violations are indexed at this ID during the review window.

The 2022 EPA consent order covered 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, but EPA's public release does not enumerate the individual sites. Consequently, the top-five EJ-exposure ranking that would ordinarily appear in this section cannot be constructed from the primary source without introducing facility assignments that are not in the record [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The 2021 Region 6 settlement covered 183 facilities across five states without a public site-level breakout in the EPA release [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The August 2025 California judgment names UPS and three corporate affiliates rather than specific addresses [source: https://rivcoda.org/UPS_violation]. For the Bishop site specifically, the absence of top pollutants, active permits, and EJ index values in ECHO means a per-facility exposure narrative beyond the single-line record cannot be supported by the research bundle. What the record does confirm is a clean 24-month compliance slate at this address — a data point that stands in contrast to the multi-facility enforcement history documented at the corporate level.

The ECHO summary for the Bishop facility lists no top pollutants, so a site-specific toxicity and exposure narrative is not supportable from the primary record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The pollutant class implicated in the enforcement history is hazardous waste under RCRA Subtitle C. EPA's October 19, 2022 release identified alleged failures to make land disposal determinations and to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste — categories that in the parcel and logistics context typically involve damaged shipments, returned consumer hazardous materials such as aerosols, lithium batteries, solvents, and paints, and small-quantity generator accumulation at package sort and transfer sites [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The 2021 Region 6 settlement addressed the same regulatory category across the Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas footprint [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Third-party compliance commentary noted that the UPS actions turn on the granular requirements of hazardous waste determinations, container labeling, and accumulation-time limits. These are administrative controls. Their failure can create ignitability, reactivity, and corrosivity exposure pathways at transfer sites [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right]. The pattern across all three enforcement actions — 2021 Region 6, 2022 nationwide, and 2025 California — points to the same underlying compliance category rather than to distinct or unrelated regulatory programs.

Environmental justice implications at the facility level cannot be quantified from the Bishop ECHO record because no EJ index value is populated [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Broader community-impact literature on pollution burden in logistics corridors is surfaced by the Center for Public Integrity's reporting on communities treated as disposal sites, though that reporting does not name UPS specifically in the captured excerpt [source: https://publicintegrity.org/environment/pollution/environmental-justice-denied/the-decades].

The research bundle returned no NAICS 49221 peer rows, so a quantitative peer ranking cannot be constructed from primary sources in this pass. EPA's ECHO exporter is the canonical dataset for constructing such a ranking and is cited here as the applicable source for any subsequent peer pull [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. In its absence, the only cross-company reference point in the record is the October 2022 EPA release, which frames UPS's hazardous waste settlement as covering 1,160 facilities — a scale reflective of UPS's position as one of the largest package and logistics operators rather than a peer-adjusted metric [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The 10-K filed February 17, 2026 frames forward-looking statements with standard cautionary language and directs investors to the Investor Relations website as a disclosure channel under Regulation FD. Item 1 identifies four near-term operational developments: the December 2025 USPS agreement for final-mile Ground Saver and Mail Innovations delivery beginning in 2026; the 2025 acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group to expand healthcare cold chain capacity; RFID deployment across U.S. package cars and 5,500 UPS Store locations; and continued execution of the Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven strategy. The Item 1A excerpt provided does not itemize specific environmental risk factors beyond the general cautionary forward-looking disclaimer, and the Item 7 excerpt is limited to a section-header listing referencing Liquidity and Capital Resources, Critical Accounting Estimates, and Item 7A quantitative disclosures [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The Q3 2025 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 contained no environmental disclosure excerpt in the research bundle [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. Two structural changes — the USPS volume intake and the closure of 51 parcel distribution centers — will shift the geographic distribution of regulated activity in ways that neither the 10-K nor the ECHO record yet fully captures.