UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - LINCOLN

UPS' Lincoln, Nebraska facility (EPA registry ID 110004078998) appears in ECHO's exporter dataset with zero quarters of significant noncompliance over the trailing 24 months and zero active permits as of the May 9, 2026 export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million 24-month penalty figure attributed to this location is a pro-rata derivation — a 24-of-60-month allocation under the exporter methodology — not a discrete enforcement order indexed to the Lincoln site. Treat it as a derived allocation, not a fresh fine. At the corporate level, United Parcel Service, Inc. reported $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and delivered 5.2 billion packages in calendar 2025, per the 10-K filed February 17, 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The most recent 10-Q, filed May 6, 2026, discloses immaterial contingencies for environmental remediation with corresponding insurance recoveries, plus ongoing claims arising from a separately disclosed incident that remains under assessment [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

Two consent agreements anchor UPS' recent enforcement record. EPA Region 6 announced a June 16, 2021 settlement requiring UPS and TForce Freight to pay a $3.8 million civil penalty and to come into RCRA compliance across 183 locations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. EPA followed on October 19, 2022 with a nationwide consent agreement resolving alleged hazardous waste violations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. The 2021 order established the template; the 2022 order extended it to the national network. A third track runs through investor filings. A 2026 PRI-tracked resolution and an As You Sow request for a third-party environmental justice audit kept community-impact disclosure in active proxy review ahead of the May 7, 2026 AGM [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream] [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

The May 9, 2026 ECHO snapshot shows the Lincoln facility with no quarters of significant noncompliance and no active permits in the underlying export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million 24-month penalty figure is computed as a 24-of-60-month allocation of a longer aggregate; no discrete recent docket against registry ID 110004078998 appears in the public record, so readers should treat that figure as a derivation rather than a fresh fine. EJ exposure metrics for the registered point are reported as zero in the export — indicating either suppressed values or a low-population census block group at the address, not necessarily an absence of community exposure.

The broader chronology is dominated by enforcement actions sized at the parent-company level rather than the Nebraska address. October 19, 2022 — outside the strict 24-month frame but the most recent national resolution on file — saw EPA announce a consent agreement resolving alleged RCRA violations at 1,160 UPS facilities in 45 states and Puerto Rico. Findings tied to land-disposal determinations and on-site hazardous waste management drove the action [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. That order required UPS to implement compliance programs designed to prevent recurrence; EPA's underlying CAFO is published separately for review [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups]. The June 16, 2021 EPA Region 6 settlement — a $3.8 million civil penalty against UPS and TForce Freight covering 183 locations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas — established the template for the later national resolution and required compliance corrections within 24 months [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Within the strict 24-month review window (May 2024 through May 2026), public-record activity shifted from EPA orders to investor and SEC channels. UPS' first-quarter 2026 Form 10-Q, dated May 6, 2026, records immaterial environmental remediation contingencies in Other current liabilities with offsetting insurance recoveries and references continuing claims arising from a separately disclosed incident [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. The 2024 GRI Report, published March 20, 2025, reiterates a 2050 carbon-neutrality target alongside interim milestones: 40% alternative fuel in ground operations by 2025, 30% sustainable aviation fuel by 2035, and a 50% CO2-per-package reduction against a 2020 baseline by 2035 [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf]. Two 2026 shareholder resolutions — a PRI-tracked filing tied to the May 7, 2026 AGM and an As You Sow request for a third-party environmental justice audit — name community-impact disclosure as the proxy season's open question [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream] [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

Action 1 — RCRA, 2022 nationwide consent agreement and final order. Date: October 19, 2022. Program: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (hazardous waste). Facilities: 1,160 UPS locations across 45 states and the territory of Puerto Rico. Findings: alleged failure to make land disposal determinations and to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste. Outcome: consent agreement and final order requiring UPS to implement environmental policies to prevent future noncompliance; underlying penalty terms are documented in the published CAFO [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide] [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

Action 2 — RCRA, EPA Region 6 settlement (precursor; June 2021, outside the strict 24-month window). Date: announced June 16, 2021. Program: RCRA. Respondents: United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. Facilities: 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Outcome: civil penalty of $3.8 million; 24-month compliance schedule across all in-scope facilities [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Action 3 — Single-facility 24-month tally for Lincoln, NE. Date range: May 2024 through May 9, 2026. Program: combined ECHO programs (CWA/CAA/RCRA monitoring slots). Facility: registry ID 110004078998. Outcome: zero formal violations and zero quarters in noncompliance per the ECHO exporter; zero active permits recorded; EJ index reported as zero [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million figure attributed to Lincoln in the corporate roll-up is a 24/60 allocation of a longer-period total and does not reflect a discrete fine indexed to this address.

Action 4 — SEC-disclosed environmental remediation contingencies. Date: 10-Q filed May 6, 2026 (period ending March 31, 2026). Outcome: immaterial liabilities recorded in Other current liabilities with corresponding insurance recoveries in Accounts receivable; ongoing claims, litigation, and other proceedings referenced; resolution amount not reasonably estimable per the filing. UPS states the 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].

1) Lincoln, NE — registry ID 110004078998. The single facility within this slug's scope. ECHO records zero quarters of significant noncompliance and zero active permits over the trailing 24 months [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million 24-month penalty figure is a 24/60 derivation from a five-year aggregate, not a discrete recent fine. EJ index is reported as zero in the export — typically a sign of either suppressed values or a low-population block group, not necessarily an absence of community exposure. In February 2024, Lincoln police responded to a suspicious package at a UPS Store location, causing a disruption at the surrounding shopping center [source: https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-courts/suspicious-package-at-ups-store-causes-disruption-at-lincoln-shopping-center/article_d0e3c0e4-c5cc-11ee-a499-876358faedb1.html]. That incident is not an environmental enforcement matter.

2) UPS Region 6 footprint — 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. EPA's 2021 settlement names this footprint as the unit of resolution, with a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month corrective schedule indexed across all in-scope sites [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Individual facility addresses within the 183 are listed in the consent agreement and final order.

3) UPS national RCRA footprint — 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. The 2022 consent agreement is the broadest single resolution on file, citing alleged failures in land disposal determinations and on-site hazardous waste management [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. State-by-state allocation of the 1,160 sites is documented in the underlying CAFO [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

4) NAICS 492110 peer roll-up: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS). The legal-entity-level peer row in the same NAICS records 11 facilities, 8 violations over the trailing 24 months, and $10.64 million in penalty totals [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. EJ index is reported as zero in the export, mirroring the Lincoln-slug result.

5) NAICS 49211 peer roll-up: UNITED PARCEL SVC. The third peer row in the NAICS benchmark covers 16 facilities, 6 violations over the trailing 24 months, and $5.76 million in penalty totals [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The three peer rows together — UPS, UNITED PARCEL SERVICES, and UNITED PARCEL SVC — show that the company's facility-level enforcement signal in ECHO is distributed across multiple legal-name spellings, and that any single-slug query understates the corporate footprint.

The ECHO exporter records no top-pollutant attribution for the Lincoln registry over the 24-month window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The dominant enforcement signal in UPS' public record is hazardous waste, not air or water emissions. EPA's 2022 nationwide consent agreement specifies findings in two RCRA-Subtitle-C operational categories: failure to make land disposal determinations and failure to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. The 2021 Region 6 settlement names the same RCRA categories across 183 locations [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Land disposal determinations under 40 CFR Part 268 require generators to identify which hazardous waste streams are subject to treatment standards before routing the waste to a land-based disposal unit. The toxicity profile depends on constituent waste codes. For parcel-and-logistics operations, the waste streams typically named in EPA enforcement files include damaged shipments containing flammable liquids, lithium batteries, aerosol containers, and small-quantity laboratory chemicals. Exposure pathways at logistics hubs run through facility floor drains, stormwater discharge points adjacent to truck-yard areas, and air emissions from emergency relief events. The EPA-published consent agreement and final order documents the specific waste codes named in the case [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

On-site hazardous waste management failures encompass labeling, storage time-limits, container integrity, training documentation, and contingency planning. EJ implications for parcel hubs concentrate downstream of stormwater outfalls and along truck-traffic corridors that often run through low-income census block groups adjacent to industrial-zoned land. EPA's environmental justice screening tools apply a national-percentile index that requires a registered facility coordinate. The Lincoln registry's reported zero EJ index in the exporter reflects either screening suppression for a low-population block group or a not-applicable code — not a substantive zero-exposure determination [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The As You Sow shareholder resolution and the PRI-tracked filing both identify the gap between national-level RCRA findings and site-level community-impact disclosure as the metric that company reporting does not currently publish [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit] [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream].

Within NAICS 492110, the three legal-name roll-ups for the UPS corporate family carry 8, 6, and 6 violations over the trailing 24 months and $10.64 million, $6.42 million, and $5.76 million in penalty totals respectively, distributed across 11, 10, and 16 registered facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Lincoln slug — 1 facility, 0 violations, $2.12 million in derived penalty allocation — sits below the peer-row averages on violation count and is the lowest-facility-count entry in the set. EJ index averages across all peer rows return as zero. That result mirrors the Lincoln figure and points to a corporate-wide measurement gap in the screening data rather than a directional comparison signal. Aggregating the three peer rows produces a combined 37 facilities, 20 violations, and roughly $22.8 million in 24-month penalty allocations across the NAICS family — context that any single-slug query understates.

UPS' 10-K filed February 17, 2026 routes Item 1A risk-factor language through forward-looking-statement disclaimers alongside a business overview covering the company's 'Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven' strategy. That overview emphasizes healthcare cold-chain expansion via the 2025 Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions, RFID rollout at 5,500 UPS Store locations, and a December 2025 agreement with USPS for final-mile delivery of Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The provided Item 1A excerpt does not surface discrete environmental risk-factor text; readers should consult the full 10-K filing for the complete risk-factor section. The Q1 2026 10-Q dated May 6, 2026 records immaterial environmental remediation contingencies with corresponding insurance recoveries and discloses claims arising from a separately referenced incident under continued assessment. UPS characterizes the financial impact as not material to results of operations or liquidity [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].