UNITED PARCEL SERVICE-LUMBERTON

United Parcel Service–Lumberton (EPA facility ID 110004045809) is a single delivery-network node within United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS, CIK 0001090727), sited in Lumberton, North Carolina. EPA ECHO data as of May 7, 2026 records zero formal violations attributed to this facility over the trailing 24-month window. The $2,120,000 figure that appears in the penalty column is not a site-specific fine. It is a pro-rata allocation generated by the ECHO exporter's formula — total five-year penalties multiplied by 24/60 — and no discrete enforcement event at the Lumberton address underlies it [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility's most recent permit-of-record is dated June 19, 2018. Zero active permits appear in the current ECHO snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

That clean site-level record connects to a corporate enforcement history with considerably more volume. Two multi-state Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) settlements anchor the parent company's public record. In June 2021, EPA Region 6 executed a consent agreement with UPS and TForce Freight, Inc. covering 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas — a $3.8 million civil penalty with a 24-month corrective-action runway [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. In October 2022 a nationwide consent agreement resolved alleged RCRA violations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, with EPA citing failures to make land disposal determinations and to conduct proper on-site hazardous-waste management [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. UPS reported $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and 5.2 billion packages delivered that year [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q filed May 6, 2026 records environmental remediation contingencies as immaterial on the consolidated balance sheet [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

EPA ECHO's facility-level snapshot for UNITED PARCEL SERVICE-LUMBERTON (FRS ID 110004045809) shows facility_count=1, violation_count_24mo=0, and active_permits_count=0. The derived penalty_total_24mo of $2,120,000 is calculated by the ECHO exporter using the formula penalty_24mo = total_5yr × (24/60) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The latest permit date on file is June 19, 2018. The EJ index average reads 0.0, reflecting the absence of programmatic exposure indicators at the single-facility ECHO record level [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No top-pollutant entries are populated in the current export.

The 24-month review window runs May 7, 2024 through May 7, 2026. No discrete enforcement actions against the Lumberton site appear in that span. The corporate timeline, however, carries two settled RCRA orders that bracket the period. The October 2022 nationwide consent agreement — finalized roughly eighteen months before the window opened — resolved alleged failures to make land disposal determinations and to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste at 1,160 UPS facilities in 45 states and Puerto Rico, requiring company-wide policy implementation to prevent future noncompliance [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Before that, the June 2021 Region 6 settlement covered 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas with a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month corrective-action requirement [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Third-party RCRA compliance commentary characterized the October 2022 order as one of the largest hazardous-waste enforcement matters of that calendar year [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right].

Within the trailing 24 months, ECHO's NAICS 492110 peer slice records 8 violations and $10,640,000 in penalties for the primary UPS legal-name string, 6 violations and $6,424,160 in penalties for a sibling UPS name aggregation, and 6 violations and $5,760,000 in penalties for a third NAICS-49211 UPS grouping [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. UPS's 10-Q for the quarter ending March 31, 2026 reports that environmental remediation accruals — held in Other current liabilities with corresponding insurance recoveries in Accounts receivable — are immaterial as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. The filing adds that pending claims arising from a separately disclosed incident could generate additional charges that the company does not believe will be material to results of operations or liquidity [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

Action 1 — June 16, 2021: EPA Region 6 announced a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. covering alleged RCRA hazardous-waste violations at 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. The settlement area spans UPS's southwestern and south-central hub network. Outcome: a $3.8 million civil penalty, a 24-month corrective-action runway across all covered facilities, and cooperation credit cited by EPA [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Action 2 — October 19, 2022: EPA announced a nationwide CAFO with United Parcel Service, Inc. resolving alleged RCRA violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. The specific allegations cited in the EPA release: failure to make land disposal determinations and failure to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste. Outcome: implementation of company-wide environmental policies to prevent future noncompliance [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Independent compliance commentary noted the order's geographic scale and the breadth of waste-handling deficiencies documented across the facility network [source: https://blog.stpub.com/epa-ups-settlement-provides-reminder-to-get-hazardous-waste-compliance-details-right].

Action 3 — Lumberton facility (FRS 110004045809): ECHO records zero discrete enforcement events during the 24-month review window. The $2,120,000 figure in the summary table is a pro-rata derivation from a five-year penalty aggregate — not a Lumberton-specific assessment — produced per the ECHO exporter methodology [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Program attribution under CWA, CAA, or RCRA is not populated for this facility in the current export. No top-pollutant flags are present.

Action 4 — Corporate-level 24-month window (NAICS 492110): The peer-table aggregation in ECHO records 8 violations and $10,640,000 in penalties associated with the UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) legal-name record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Facility-level program codes for those eight violation events are not enumerated in the supplied data bundle.

1) UNITED PARCEL SERVICE-LUMBERTON, NC (FRS ID 110004045809): The subject facility. The ECHO snapshot as of May 7, 2026 shows zero violations in the trailing 24 months, zero active permits, a latest permit date of June 19, 2018, and an EJ index average of 0.0. The $2,120,000 penalty figure appearing in the summary table is exporter-derived; the ECHO formula total_5yr × (24/60) generates it mechanically from a five-year aggregate and it is not tied to any discrete enforcement event at this address [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Lumberton sits in Robeson County, North Carolina. The county has drawn regional coverage on cumulative industrial-waste exposure, including a May 2023 NC Newsline special report describing its demographic profile and pollution burden. That reporting does not name the UPS Lumberton site specifically [source: https://ncnewsline.com/2023/05/27/newsline-special-report-a-community-inundated-with-industrial-waste/].

2) UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) — corporate legal-name aggregate: 11 facilities in the ECHO peer table carry this legal-name string. The aggregate shows 8 violations in 24 months, $10,640,000 in penalties, and an EJ index average of 0.0 in the current export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

3) UNITED PARCEL SERVICES — sibling legal-name aggregate: 10 facilities, 6 violations in 24 months, $6,424,160 in aggregate penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

4) UNITED PARCEL SVC — NAICS 49211 aggregate: 16 facilities, 6 violations in 24 months, $5,760,000 in aggregate penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

5) Region 6 multi-state footprint (AR, LA, OK, NM, TX): The 183 facilities resolved under the June 2021 Region 6 CAFO represent the broadest non-Lumberton enforcement footprint in UPS's public record. The consent agreement required corrective action at all 183 locations within 24 months and carried a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

The Lumberton facility's ECHO record carries no populated top_pollutants entries in the current export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The principal pollutant category implicated by the corporate-parent enforcement record is RCRA-regulated hazardous waste — the subject matter of both the June 2021 Region 6 consent agreement and the October 2022 nationwide consent agreement. EPA's stated allegations covered failure to make land disposal determinations and failure to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste. Under RCRA Subtitle C, those categories of deficiency create exposure pathways through improper accumulation, mislabeling, and shipment of waste streams that can include solvents, batteries, aerosols, and small-quantity chemical returns generated in package-handling operations [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

A second contextual frame is regional cumulative exposure in Robeson County. A May 2023 NC Newsline special report and a November 2021 Charlotte Post article document the county's exposure to industrial-waste streams; neither report assigns specific pollutant loadings to the UPS Lumberton facility, but both place the surrounding community in an environmental-justice context that ECHO's facility-level EJ index does not currently surface [source: https://ncnewsline.com/2023/05/27/newsline-special-report-a-community-inundated-with-industrial-waste/] [source: https://www.thecharlottepost.com/news/2021/11/20/local-state/dirty-industries-a-strain-on-unsuspecting-nc-neighbors/]. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality published a state-level Environmental Justice Report dated May 24, 2022 covering the Lumberton area in connection with a different, non-UPS facility — North Carolina Renewable Power–Lumberton, LLC — providing an EJ-assessment template for the same census tracts [source: https://www.deq.nc.gov/ej/nc-renewable-environmental-justice-report/open].

A third frame is fleet emissions. UPS's own ESG materials reference targets for alternative fuels and sustainable aviation fuel, implicating Clean Air Act–regulated mobile-source emissions — nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and CO2-equivalent — across the company's ground and air fleets [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/assets/social-impact/2021-esg-highlights-brochure/en_en_2021SustainabilityBrochure_V15.pdf.pdf].

The three NAICS 492110 peer rows in ECHO are all UPS legal-name variants rather than independent carriers — a consequence of how ECHO catalogs UPS facilities across multiple registry strings. No external competitor data appears in this peer slice. The Lumberton single-facility record (0 violations, $2,120,000 derived penalty) sits below the per-facility averages implied by the primary corporate aggregate: 8 violations across 11 facilities yields approximately 0.73 violations per facility, and $10,640,000 across 11 facilities yields approximately $967,000 in penalties per facility over 24 months [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The sibling-string aggregates — UNITED PARCEL SERVICES (6 violations, $6,424,160, 10 facilities) and UNITED PARCEL SVC (6 violations, $5,760,000, 16 facilities) — tell a consistent story. On the ECHO metrics available here, Lumberton is not an outlier within the UPS portfolio in either direction.

UPS's 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 includes standard forward-looking-statement language and cautionary disclosures in Item 1A, noting that the company does not undertake any obligation to update such statements except as required by law and that material non-public information may be disclosed through the Investor Relations website [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Item 1 establishes the operational baseline: 5.2 billion packages delivered in 2025 across more than 200 countries, $88.7 billion in revenue, a December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement, and completed acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Against that footprint — spanning every domestic market UPS serves — environmental compliance obligations attach to each facility in the network. The 10-Q filed May 6, 2026 characterizes remediation contingencies as immaterial and notes that pending claims arising from a separately disclosed incident could produce additional charges that the company does not believe will be material to results of operations or liquidity [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].