UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - CAWTD

UPS — CAWTD (FRS ID 110069707151) is a single-facility filing entity in San Diego, California. It operates under NAICS 492110 (Couriers and Express Delivery Services) within the UPS corporate structure (NYSE: UPS, CIK 0001090727). EPA ECHO data current to 2026-05-08 records zero formal violations against this entity across the trailing 24-month window. The $2,120,000 penalty figure attached to the record is a derived proration — the ECHO exporter calculates it as total_5yr × (24/60), not a sum of discrete penalties dated within the past two years [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No active permits exist. No environmental-justice index average is published at the entity-level record, though parent-company EJ exposure is substantially higher when aggregated across the broader UPS network.

Entity-level clean readings sit inside a much heavier parent-company context. For fiscal year 2025, UPS reported $88.7 billion in revenue and 5.2 billion packages delivered — a delivery volume generating air-quality, waste, and water exposure across a nationwide terminal network [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q filed 2026-05-06 discloses environmental remediation contingencies in current liabilities recorded as immaterial, offset by insurance recoveries booked to accounts receivable. Pending claims and litigation tied to an unspecified incident also appear in that filing [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. On 2025-11-13, shareholder activist group As You Sow filed a resolution requesting a third-party environmental justice audit at UPS. The resolution cites material financial risks from pollution impacts in overburdened communities [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit]. That filing signals investor scrutiny of the company's network-wide pollution exposure has moved well beyond voluntary sustainability disclosures.

The CAWTD filing entity recorded zero quarters of significant non-compliance across the trailing eight-quarter window ending 2026-05-08. One facility — FRS 110069707151 — maps to this record, and it carries no active permits [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2,120,000 penalty figure in the ECHO entity summary is a straight-line proration of a five-year aggregate — the exporter applies total_5yr × (24/60) — and should be treated as indicative of scale, not as a sum of enforcement events dated within the past 24 months. Analysts seeking discrete docket entries should filter the raw ECHO exporter ZIP on FRS 110069707151.

The dominant enforcement reference for the broader UPS network traces to June 2021. On 2021-06-16, EPA Region 6 announced a settlement requiring corrective action at 183 UPS and TForce Freight locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The Consent Agreement and Final Order, lodged under EPA Docket No. RCRA-06-2022 and signed 2022-10-17, assessed a $3.8 million civil penalty and set a 24-month corrective compliance schedule addressing alleged hazardous-waste regulation breaches under RCRA [source: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/hazardous-waste-enforcement-u-s-8547964/] [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups]. That 24-month schedule would have concluded in mid-to-late 2023. Its implementation tail sits squarely inside the current review window for this report.

The compliance timeline through 2024 and into 2025 shifted toward disclosure activity rather than new enforcement events. UPS published its 2024 Global Reporting Initiative report on 2025-03-20, covering calendar year 2024 [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf]. Six months later, on 2025-11-13, As You Sow filed a shareholder resolution pressing for a third-party environmental justice audit [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit]. The FY2025 10-K followed on 2026-02-17 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm], and the Q1 2026 10-Q filed 2026-05-06 disclosed continued remediation contingencies alongside unresolved litigation tied to an incident under insurance review [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. A separate record under California Integrated Water Quality System party ID S48617 places a UPS-affiliated entity in the State Water Resources Control Board's enforcement database, though the public report routes to a facility-glance page without dated violation specifics in the returned data [source: https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/readOnly/PublicReportPartyAtGlanceServlet?reportID=2&paagrPartyID=S48617&relRMSortDir=&relRMSortCol=11].

For the CAWTD filing entity, EPA ECHO returned zero discrete enforcement actions inside the trailing 24-month window. The $2,120,000 figure in the entity summary is a derived proration — 24/60ths of an underlying five-year aggregate — not a sum of penalties assessed between May 2024 and May 2026. Analysts seeking source docket entries should pull the raw ECHO exporter ZIP and filter on FRS 110069707151 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

At the parent-company level, the controlling enforcement action in the research record is the EPA Region 6 RCRA matter. The original announcement came on 2021-06-16, identifying 183 UPS and TForce Freight facilities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, a $3.8 million civil penalty, and a 24-month corrective compliance schedule targeting alleged hazardous-waste handling, storage, and manifesting violations [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The matter was formalized as a Consent Agreement and Final Order under EPA Docket No. RCRA-06-2022, signed 2022-10-17 [source: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/hazardous-waste-enforcement-u-s-8547964/]. That CAFO document is posted directly on EPA's enforcement portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

No federal Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act penalties of comparable scale appear in the bundled research. At the state level, California's CIWQS public portal carries a record for party ID S48617, indicating UPS presence in the State Water Resources Control Board's water-quality oversight system [source: https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/readOnly/PublicReportPartyAtGlanceServlet?reportID=2&paagrPartyID=S48617&relRMSortDir=&relRMSortCol=11]. The PRI collaborative-engagement record under group 36786 registers community-impact concerns tied to UPS environmental exposure and represents a third-party investor-coordination reference point [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream].

The Q1 2026 10-Q, filed 2026-05-06, records immaterial environmental remediation contingencies as of both 2026-03-31 and 2025-12-31. Offsetting insurance recoveries appear in accounts receivable. The same disclosure references pending claims, litigation, and proceedings arising from an unspecified incident; management states that financial impact is not expected to be material to results of operations or liquidity [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

Facility 1 — UPS — CAWTD (FRS ID 110069707151), San Diego, California. This is the sole facility mapped to the CAWTD filing entity in EPA ECHO. The record shows zero active permits, zero quarters of significant non-compliance over the trailing 24 months, no published environmental-justice index average, and no top-pollutant inventory in the entity-level summary. San Diego's role as a major logistics hub makes the absence of permit records worth verifying in independent diligence, as state-level permits — stormwater, air, water — may exist outside the federal ECHO system [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Facility 2 — Aggregate UPS California water-quality footprint (CIWQS Party ID S48617). The California State Water Resources Control Board's CIWQS public portal carries a UPS-affiliated party record, indicating that state water-quality permits or enforcement entries exist outside the federal ECHO summary. Analysts conducting independent diligence should access the party-glance report directly for site-by-site detail, including permit numbers, discharge monitoring reports, and any dated inspection findings [source: https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/readOnly/PublicReportPartyAtGlanceServlet?reportID=2&paagrPartyID=S48617&relRMSortDir=&relRMSortCol=11].

Facility 3 — Region 6 RCRA program facilities, AR/LA/OK/NM/TX (183 sites). The 2021 EPA settlement folded 183 UPS and TForce Freight locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas into a single corrective-action program addressing alleged hazardous-waste regulation breaches. The 24-month corrective schedule, running from the October 2022 CAFO signing, concluded in approximately late 2024. These are not California facilities, but they sit within the corporate enforcement footprint that shapes network-level ESG risk assessment [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Facility 4 — UPS network (Smart Package Smart Facility scope). The FY2025 10-K reports that UPS extended RFID readers across U.S. package cars and 5,500 UPS Store locations as of year-end 2025. These are operational footprints rather than discrete EPA-regulated facilities. They define the geographic surface area against which environmental-justice exposure is measured at the parent-entity level — relevant context when assessing whether the CAWTD single-facility record captures the company's full network footprint [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

Facility 5 — Healthcare cold-chain assets (Frigo-Trans, Andlauer Healthcare). The FY2025 10-K discloses two healthcare logistics acquisitions completed in 2025. Both expand UPS's cold-chain operations and refrigerant-bearing asset base. That expansion matters from a fugitive-emissions and energy-intensity standpoint, particularly given EPA's AIM Act regulatory program covering hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants — even where ECHO does not yet reflect post-acquisition permit transfers [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

The CAWTD entity-level ECHO summary returns an empty top-pollutants list. Pollutant context is therefore drawn from the parent-company enforcement record and operational disclosures.

RCRA hazardous-waste streams. The 2021 Region 6 settlement and the October 2022 Consent Agreement and Final Order addressed alleged hazardous-waste handling, storage, and manifesting violations at 183 UPS and TForce Freight locations [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. RCRA-regulated wastes at courier and freight terminals commonly include used solvents, lithium-ion battery rejects, aerosols flagged as damaged in transit, and small-quantity ignitable or corrosive shipments. Primary exposure pathways are occupational — worker handling during sorting and storage — and environmental via stormwater runoff from terminal pavement. Environmental-justice implications attach where terminals are sited in ZIP codes with elevated EJ index scores near residential populations [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

Diesel particulate matter and NOx from ground fleet operations. UPS's FY2025 10-K describes a delivery network processing 5.2 billion packages annually — 20.8 million packages per day — supported by an integrated air and ground fleet [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. EPA classifies diesel particulate matter as a likely human carcinogen via inhalation. Exposure concentrates along package-car delivery routes and at terminal loading docks where vehicles idle. The 2021 UPS Sustainability Brochure set a target of 40% alternative fuel in ground operations by 2025 [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/assets/social-impact/2021-esg-highlights-brochure/en_en_2021SustainabilityBrochure_V15.pdf.pdf], though the FY2025 10-K excerpt does not contain a quantified progress update against that target.

Water-quality discharges, California. The CIWQS record for party ID S48617 places UPS within California's state water-quality oversight system [source: https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/readOnly/PublicReportPartyAtGlanceServlet?reportID=2&paagrPartyID=S48617&relRMSortDir=&relRMSortCol=11]. Typical courier-terminal discharges include vehicle-wash effluent, fueling-area runoff, and stormwater carrying trace petroleum hydrocarbons and metals off terminal pavement. These enter municipal stormwater systems and reach local surface waters. In San Diego, downgradient receiving waters serve communities identified as overburdened in the As You Sow shareholder resolution filed 2025-11-13 [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

Within NAICS 492110, EPA ECHO's top-penalty list is dominated by UPS corporate filings. Three distinct entities all trace to the same parent: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) at 11 facilities, 8 violation-quarters, and a $10.64 million 24-month penalty allocation; UNITED PARCEL SERVICES at 10 facilities, 6 violation-quarters, and $6.42 million; and UNITED PARCEL SVC under NAICS 49211 at 16 facilities, 6 violation-quarters, and $5.76 million [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The CAWTD record under review — 1 facility, 0 violation-quarters, $2.12 million derived — sits below all three on facility count and violation count. On a per-facility basis, however, the derived penalty allocation falls within the same order of magnitude as the larger entities. Three UPS-group entries at the top of the NAICS 492110 penalty table confirm that UPS enforcement exposure must be read at the consolidated level. Any single ECHO filing-entity row captures only a fraction of the parent's aggregate posture [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The Item 1A excerpt of the 10-K filed 2026-02-17 carries the standard forward-looking-statement cautionary language: the company does not undertake any obligation to update such statements except as required by law, and directs investors to the Investor Relations website for material non-public information disclosure under Regulation FD [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Item 7 MD&A identifies Liquidity and Capital Resources, Collective Bargaining Agreements, Critical Accounting Estimates, and Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk as forward-looking topic areas. The 10-Q filed 2026-05-06 adds a specific environmental vector. Resolution of pending claims, litigation, and proceedings tied to an unspecified incident could produce additional charges and related insurance recoveries in future periods. Amounts are not reasonably estimable at the time of filing [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].