UNITED PARCEL SERVICE MOTOWN

United Parcel Service Motown — a single-facility entity registered under NAICS 49211 with EPA facility identifier 110071248162, headquartered in Earth City, Missouri — carries zero open formal violations in the trailing 24 months according to EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online database. The clean current record does not tell the whole story. A derived penalty exposure of $2,120,000 appears in the ECHO dataset, pro-rated from a five-year window under a formula that allocates prior settlement dollars across time [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

That figure traces to two parent-level settlements rather than a discrete enforcement action at the Earth City address. In June 2021, EPA Region 6 announced a $3.8 million civil penalty covering 183 UPS and TForce Freight locations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Sixteen months later, on October 19, 2022, EPA finalized a nationwide consent agreement with UPS resolving alleged hazardous waste violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico — specifically, failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The publicly traded parent — NYSE: UPS, CIK 0001090727 — filed its annual report on February 17, 2026, disclosing $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and an average daily volume of 20.8 million packages, totaling 5.2 billion packages for the year [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Within the NAICS 492110 peer set, the parent registrant records eight violations and $10.64 million in 24-month penalty totals across 11 facilities. A second UPS-affiliated registrant logs six violations and $6.42 million across ten facilities. A third logs six violations and $5.76 million across 16 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Motown-registered entity sits below all three on absolute violation count while carrying reputational exposure from those parent-level settlements.

EPA ECHO records as of May 5, 2026 list one facility under the United Parcel Service Motown registrant — facility ID 110071248162 — and zero formal noncompliance quarters in the trailing eight-quarter window. The $2.12 million 24-month penalty figure is a derived quantity, not an assessed fine. ECHO discloses its derivation explicitly: `viol_24mo=min(qtrs_with_nc,8); penalty_24mo=total_5yr*(24/60)` [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Under that formula, the dollar figure reflects historical settlement participation rather than any current open enforcement matter at the Earth City address. The derivation produces a figure useful for peer comparison but does not reflect a site-specific enforcement finding.

The two settlements driving the allocation both arise under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. On October 19, 2022, EPA finalized a nationwide consent agreement with UPS resolving alleged RCRA violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico — the alleged conduct included failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. That order built on an earlier regional action: on June 16, 2021, EPA Region 6 executed a consent agreement with UPS and TForce Freight covering 183 locations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, attaching a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month corrective-action timeline [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The 2021 and 2022 orders together established the compliance-program framework that governed facility operations across the network through 2023 and into 2024.

During 2024 and 2025, UPS continued executing internal compliance commitments from those settlements while simultaneously restructuring its physical footprint. The company announced in early 2026 plans to close 27 additional parcel facilities during the year, bringing the total network reduction to 51 distribution centers [source: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-to-close-27-additional-parcel-facilities-in-2026]. The February 17, 2026 annual report disclosed 2025 revenue of $88.7 billion, the acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group to build out cold-chain healthcare logistics capacity, and a December 2025 final-mile delivery agreement with the United States Postal Service taking effect in 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 contains no incremental environmental disclosure beyond the prior annual report [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].

Action 1 — June 16, 2021. EPA Region 6 Consent Agreement and Final Order, United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. Program: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Geography: 183 facilities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Outcome: $3,800,000 civil penalty; a 24-month compliance schedule binding all Region 6 sites; enhanced compliance programs at each respondent location [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Action 2 — October 19, 2022. EPA national Consent Agreement and Final Order with United Parcel Service, Inc. Program: RCRA. Geography: 1,160 facilities across 45 states and the territory of Puerto Rico. Allegations recited in EPA's release: failure to make land disposal determinations; failure to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste. Outcome: company-wide environmental policy implementation to prevent future noncompliance [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Action 3 — Pro-rated 24-month penalty allocation. ECHO derives the Motown registrant's $2,120,000 figure by multiplying total five-year penalties by the ratio 24/60 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Motown line item carries zero formal quarterly noncompliance entries in the eight-quarter window. The dollar figure originates from settlement allocation, not from a discrete enforcement finding at the Earth City, Missouri address.

Action 4 — Shareholder action surface. As You Sow filed a 2025 shareholder resolution requesting a third-party environmental justice audit at UPS, identified in the November 13, 2025 resolution record [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit]. The resolution is investor-side rather than agency-side and does not constitute an EPA enforcement action, but it documents external pressure on UPS environmental disclosures within the 24-month window.

Facility 1 — UPS Motown, Earth City, MO (EPA facility ID 110071248162). The single registered facility under this entity. ECHO records show zero formal violations in the trailing 24-month window and a $2.12 million pro-rated penalty figure derived from the parent's five-year settlement total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The EJ index average is reported as 0.0 in the supplied dataset; the data provider flags this as a missing-value sentinel, not a measured zero.

Facility 2 — UPS parent registrant (slug united-parcel-service-inc-ups), 11 facilities under NAICS 492110. Eight violations and $10.64 million in 24-month penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. This registrant captures the largest share of post-2022 nationwide RCRA settlement obligations and carries the highest absolute penalty figure within the peer set.

Facility 3 — UPS-affiliated registrant (slug united-parcel-services), 10 facilities. Six violations and $6.42 million in 24-month penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Second in the NAICS 492110 peer ranking on aggregate penalty dollars.

Facility 4 — UPS-affiliated registrant (slug united-parcel-svc), 16 facilities under NAICS 49211. Six violations and $5.76 million in 24-month penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The highest facility count among peer registrants, but aggregate penalty falls below both larger-dollar siblings.

Facility 5 — Adjacent industrial-corridor reference: NorthPoint Detroit warehouse development, profiled by Outlier Media in December 2023 as part of a series on Detroit air-quality impacts from logistics-corridor truck traffic [source: https://outliermedia.org/detroit-development-northpoint-industrial-truck-traffic-pollution/]. This is not a UPS facility. The reference supplies regional environmental justice context for parcel-network siting decisions across the broader Midwest.

Pollutant 1 — Hazardous waste under RCRA Subtitle C. EPA's October 2022 nationwide settlement with UPS alleged failure to make land disposal determinations and failure to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste at 1,160 facilities [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Land disposal determinations are the regulatory checkpoint dictating whether a waste stream requires treatment to RCRA standards before landfill disposal. Missed determinations create downstream contamination pathways through groundwater and soil at receiving sites.

Pollutant 2 — Diesel particulate matter and NOx from package-delivery fleet operations. Outlier Media's December 2023 Detroit reporting documents truck-traffic exposure in residential corridors adjacent to logistics warehouses, with concentrated impact on neighborhoods such as Plymouth-Hubbell that sit at I-96 freight off-ramps [source: https://outliermedia.org/detroit-development-northpoint-industrial-truck-traffic-pollution/]. UPS does not disclose facility-level diesel emissions in the 10-K, and the ECHO dataset records no top pollutants for the Motown registrant. Fleet-level diesel metrics, if tracked internally, are not published at facility resolution in the public documents reviewed.

Pollutant 3 — Methane intrusion at distribution facilities. USPS Office of Inspector General Report HR-MA-17-001, dated January 25, 2017, documents methane detection-system malfunctions at the Michigan Metroplex Processing and Distribution Center — a parcel-handling site built atop a former methane-generating substrate [source: https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-01/HR-MA-17-001.pdf]. The report concerns a Postal Service facility, not UPS. It surfaces a class of geotechnical risk relevant to any parcel-distribution real estate sited on reclaimed industrial land.

Within NAICS 492110/49211, the United Parcel Service registrant family clusters at the top of the penalty table. The parent line carries $10.64 million in 24-month penalties across 11 facilities and eight formal violations [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Motown registrant's single facility and zero violations place it below all three peer registrants on absolute count. Its $2.12 million pro-rated penalty reflects allocation from parent-level settlements rather than a discrete enforcement finding at Earth City [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. EJ index averages report as 0.0 across the peer set — values the data provider flags as missing-value sentinels, not measured exposure scores.

UPS's 10-K filed February 17, 2026 frames forward-looking risk through Item 1A's standard cautionary language on the limitations of forward-looking statements, directing investors to the Investor Relations site at www.investors.ups.com for material updates. The filing covers the December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement, the Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions, and continued execution of the Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven program [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Item 7 identifies collective bargaining agreements and critical accounting estimates as forward sensitivities. The 10-Q dated November 5, 2025 adds no incremental environmental risk-factor disclosure in the captured excerpt [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].