UNITED PARCEL SERVICE-WINSTON SALEM

EPA ECHO records identify one regulated facility tied to UPS Winston-Salem (FRS facility ID 110018529635). Eight consecutive quarters logged zero non-compliance events. The derived 24-month penalty exposure stands at $2,120,000 — an arithmetic slice of the five-year penalty total, calculated as total_5yr × (24/60) under the ECHO derivation formula, not a discrete enforcement booking within the current window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Zero active permits appear in the dataset. The most recent permit date on record is April 14, 2015 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The EJ index field reads 0.0 — a reflection of unpopulated screen values at the FRS level, not a confirmed determination that the surrounding population faces low environmental exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Parent United Parcel Service, Inc. (CIK 0001090727) posted 2025 revenue of $88.7 billion, moving an average of 20.8 million packages per day across more than 200 countries [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q filed May 6, 2026 discloses immaterial contingencies for environmental remediation and related claims as of March 31, 2026, with corresponding insurance recoveries recorded against accounts receivable [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. Two parent-level enforcement actions frame the compliance baseline for the Winston-Salem site. EPA Region 6 announced a 183-facility settlement on June 16, 2021. EPA then announced a 1,160-facility nationwide consent agreement on October 19, 2022. Both resolved alleged RCRA hazardous-waste violations and pre-date the 24-month ECHO window, yet each is material to reading the parent-company enforcement history [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide] [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

The ECHO export run on May 10, 2026 records zero quarter-level non-compliance entries for the Winston-Salem facility across all eight trailing quarters [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2,120,000 24-month figure is a mechanical derivation — historical five-year penalty totals apportioned over 24 of 60 months — and does not correspond to a penalty assessed through a discrete enforcement action falling inside the May 2024–May 2026 window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Zero active permits appear in the record. The most-recent permit date of April 14, 2015 is consistent with a parcel-handling classification rather than the heavier permitting footprint typical of Clean Air Act Title V or NPDES-covered emitters [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Two parent-entity enforcement actions establish the compliance chronology against which this site's clean record should be read. On June 16, 2021, EPA Region 6 announced a settlement requiring UPS and TForce Freight to address alleged hazardous-waste violations at 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. The settlement imposed a $3.8 million civil penalty and set a 24-month schedule for corrective action [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Sixteen months later, on October 19, 2022, EPA announced a nationwide consent agreement covering 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. Alleged violations were RCRA-based. Specifically, EPA cited failures to make land-disposal determinations and to maintain proper on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Contemporary press coverage confirmed that the 2022 agreement included UPS committing to implement environmental policies to prevent future non-compliance [source: https://www.wistv.com/2022/10/19/epa-ups-pay-fine-correct-hazardous-waste-violations/].

The corporate-disclosure record adds further dimension. UPS filed its 2025 10-K on February 17, 2026, reporting $88.7 billion in full-year revenue alongside the December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement, which transfers Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The same filing documents the 2025 closings of the Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions — deals that extend UPS's cold-chain footprint and subject the company to pharmaceutical-grade handling requirements for temperature-controlled shipments [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q filed May 6, 2026 discloses an unspecified incident for which UPS carries insurance coverage and continues to assess environmental impact; the company characterizes the financial effect as immaterial to results of operations and liquidity [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. That same 10-Q records approximately $500 million in CBP refund requests for IEEPA tariffs following the U.S. Supreme Court's February 20, 2026 ruling — a working-capital matter distinct from environmental compliance, included here for chronological completeness [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

The May 10, 2026 ECHO export records zero discrete quarter-level non-compliance events for UPS Winston-Salem (FRS 110018529635) across Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and RCRA programs over the trailing 24 months [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million 24-month penalty figure is an arithmetic product — five-year penalty total multiplied by 24/60 — and does not map to a specific enforcement docket in the export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

For the parent entity, two enforcement actions define the recent record. First: the June 16, 2021 EPA Region 6 settlement with UPS and TForce Freight, resolving alleged RCRA Subtitle C hazardous-waste violations at 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. The settlement required corrective action on a 24-month schedule and carried a $3,800,000 civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Second: the October 19, 2022 EPA nationwide consent agreement covering 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, addressing alleged RCRA violations — specifically, 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]. Press reporting at the time confirmed that UPS agreed to implement environmental policies as part of the 2022 settlement terms [source: https://www.wistv.com/2022/10/19/epa-ups-pay-fine-correct-hazardous-waste-violations/].

Both actions pre-date the May 2024–May 2026 ECHO window and do not feed into the Winston-Salem violation tally. They appear here to establish parent-entity enforcement baseline. The ECHO export does not identify which, if any, of the 1,160 nationally covered facilities corresponds to the Winston-Salem FRS record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS Winston-Salem — Winston-Salem, NC (FRS 110018529635). The single facility tied to this ECHO record shows zero violations in the trailing 24-month window, zero active permits, a most-recent permit date of April 14, 2015, and an EJ index of 0.0 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. NAICS code 492210, covering local messengers and local delivery, places this record in a sorting-and-handoff category rather than the heavier industrial classifications that attract emissions permitting under Title V or NPDES.

A separate operational footprint at the same location runs under FAA authority rather than EPA stationary-source rules. In December 2021, the FAA completed an Environmental Assessment and issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for UPS Flight Forward drone-delivery operations between UPS and Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem. That aerial-delivery program falls outside the ECHO facility record entirely [source: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/uas/advanced_operations/nepa_and_drones/UPS_Flight_Forward_Winston_Salem_NC-EA_and_record_of_decision.pdf].

City-level environmental-justice context is set out in the City of Winston-Salem's 2024 Environmental Justice Report, presented to the community development, housing and general government committee on December 9, 2024. The report acknowledges the city's documented history of residential segregation, redlining, and the uneven distribution of environmental burdens across its neighborhoods [source: https://triad-city-beat.com/winston-salem-environmental-justice-report/]. Against that municipal backdrop, the ECHO-reported EJ index of 0.0 should be read as an absence of populated screen values for this specific FRS record — not a verified low-exposure determination at the city or census-block-group level.

A data-coverage note applies: the research bundle returned one facility for this identifier. A top-5 peer ranking is not derivable from the current export. Analysts seeking parent-entity cross-facility comparisons should pull the full EPA exporter file directly [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The ECHO export returns an empty top-pollutants array for this facility. That result is consistent with the absence of active CAA, NPDES, or RCRA-permitted-emitter status in the record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Three pollutant categories remain analytically relevant at the parent-entity scale.

The first is RCRA Subtitle C hazardous waste — universal wastes, used aerosol containers, and discarded commercial chemical products of the type cited in the October 2022 nationwide consent order. EPA's allegations centered on failures around land-disposal determinations and on-site management. Toxicity varies by waste code. D-listed characteristic wastes and U/P-listed commercial chemicals each carry distinct hazard profiles, with primary exposure pathways including worker dermal and inhalation contact at the handling site and downstream soil and groundwater contamination as a secondary pathway when waste is improperly disposed [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The second category is hazardous-waste generator-status compliance under 40 CFR Part 262 — the regulatory basis for the 183-facility Region 6 action announced June 16, 2021. The environmental-justice dimension of generator-status violations concentrates when facilities co-locate near residential areas with lower household-income screens [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

The third category is mobile-source criteria pollutants — NOx, particulate matter, and carbon monoxide from the diesel fleet serving parcel-handling sites. These fall under Clean Air Act Title II rather than facility-level Title V permitting and do not appear in the ECHO facility record. UPS reports its fleet decarbonization targets and electrification roadmap separately through its sustainability disclosures [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/assets/social-impact/2021-esg-highlights-brochure/en_en_2021SustainabilityBrochure_V15.pdf.pdf].

The single NAICS 492210 peer returned in the benchmark — UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - CABIH — reports an identical 24-month violation count of zero, an identical derived 24-month penalty exposure of $2,120,000, and an identical EJ index average of 0.0 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The matching figures across all three fields point to a sibling FRS record attached to the same parent UPS legal entity rather than an independent operator in the local-courier classification. The peer set therefore provides no meaningful relative positioning for the Winston-Salem site. For a genuine cross-operator comparison, analysts should pull the full set of 1,160 UPS facilities named in the October 2022 EPA consent agreement — none of which is individually identified in the current export [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The 10-K Item 1A excerpt available in the research bundle addresses forward-looking-statement caveats, disclosure obligations under Regulation FD, and the routing of material non-public information through investors.ups.com. No free-standing environmental-risk paragraph appears in the text available for review [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Two strategy-section disclosures in that same filing carry environmental-compliance implications worth noting, however. The December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement restructures last-mile routing for Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026, shifting the distribution of vehicle-miles and associated mobile-source emissions across the network. The 2025 closings of the Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions push UPS deeper into temperature-controlled pharmaceutical logistics — a segment that brings pharmaceutical-grade handling requirements and a refrigerant-emissions overlay distinct from the standard parcel-handling regulatory profile [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].