UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, WORLDPORT

United Parcel Service's Worldport hub in Louisville, Kentucky — the centerpiece of UPS's global air network — carries six EPA-recorded violations over the trailing 24 months with an allocated penalty total of approximately $2.13 million [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility operates under EPA facility registry ID 110000884179 and had its most recent permit action dated September 18, 2025 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Worldport sits adjacent to Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport and handles an average of 416,000 packages per hour across 5.2 million square feet of sorting floor [source: https://www.startuplouisville.com/articles/ups-worldport-louisville-largest-air-hub]. On November 4, 2025, a UPS widebody freighter caught fire after takeoff from that same airport, killing nine people including three crew members, and the hub temporarily halted cargo sorting while investigators worked the scene [source: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ups-worldport-louisville-nerve-center-global-logistics-2025-11-05/].

The single-facility picture understates corporate-level exposure considerably. At the parent level, UPS entities carry a combined 20 violations and more than $22.8 million in allocated 24-month penalties across three ECHO entity records sharing the same NAICS 492110 classification [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That figure follows a 2022 nationwide EPA consent agreement resolving RCRA hazardous-waste violations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico for $5.3 million [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide], and a 2021 Region 6 settlement covering 183 locations for $3.8 million [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. UPS reported $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Those two enforcement actions alone span more than 1,300 facilities and represent the dominant thread in UPS's recent regulatory record — a thread the Worldport ECHO entry, taken alone, does not fully capture.

EPA ECHO records for the Worldport facility (registry ID 110000884179) show six quarters with recorded noncompliance over the trailing 24-month window and an allocated penalty figure of $2,125,900, derived by pro-rating the five-year penalty total to a 24-month slice [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility has zero currently active federal permits logged in the ECHO exporter snapshot as of May 4, 2026, with the most recent permit-related action dated September 18, 2025 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The ECHO snapshot does not surface specific pollutant exceedance codes or an EJ index average for this single record, returning zeros in both fields [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That data gap matters: it means the facility-level compliance picture is quantifiable by penalty dollars and quarter-counts, but not by pollutant type or community-exposure score.

Two enforcement bookends bracket the 24-month narrative. On June 16, 2021, EPA Region 6 announced a consent agreement with UPS and TForce Freight covering 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, with a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month compliance runway [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Then, on October 19, 2022, EPA announced a nationwide follow-on consent agreement resolving RCRA hazardous-waste violations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, with a $5.3 million penalty and required implementation of corporate environmental policies to prevent recurrence [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Law360 confirms the $5.3 million nationwide figure and characterizes the alleged conduct as failure to make land-disposal determinations and improper on-site hazardous waste management [source: https://www.law360.com/real-estate-authority/commercial/articles/1541549/ups-to-pay-5-3m-nationwide-hazardous-waste-epa-penalty]. Together, those two settlements define the regulatory arc against which Worldport's six quarters of noncompliance must be read.

More recent activity concentrates on operational-safety and air-operations matters that sit outside the ECHO dataset but carry environmental adjacency. On November 4, 2025, a UPS MD-11 freighter caught fire shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, killing nine and prompting a temporary Worldport sort-suspension [source: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ups-worldport-louisville-nerve-center-global-logistics-2025-11-05/]. Local reporting raised questions about the future land use of the industrial area south of the airport following the crash [source: https://www.wdrb.com/news/future-of-industrial-area-south-of-louisville-airport-in-question-after-deadly-ups-crash]. UPS's 10-K filed February 17, 2026 does not disclose a discrete environmental loss contingency tied to Worldport in the Item 1A excerpts released [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm], and the 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 contains no standalone environmental disclosure excerpt [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].

Discrete, dated enforcement actions visible in public records against UPS-affiliated entities — with Worldport as the NAICS-linked Louisville anchor — include the following. June 16, 2021: EPA Region 6 consent agreement with UPS and TForce Freight, RCRA hazardous-waste program, 183 facilities across AR/LA/OK/NM/TX, $3.8 million civil penalty, 24-month compliance schedule [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. October 19, 2022: nationwide EPA consent agreement and final order resolving RCRA violations at 1,160 UPS facilities in 45 states plus Puerto Rico, $5.3 million penalty, required corrective environmental management programs [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. The cited violations included failure to make land-disposal determinations and improper on-site handling of hazardous waste [source: https://www.law360.com/real-estate-authority/commercial/articles/1541549/ups-to-pay-5-3m-nationwide-hazardous-waste-epa-penalty]. Those two actions together touched more than 1,300 facilities and set the compliance baseline that subsequent ECHO quarter-counts reflect.

For the Worldport facility specifically, the ECHO exporter records six quarters of noncompliance in the trailing 24 months with $2,125,900 in allocated penalties; program-specific codes — whether Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, or RCRA — are not broken out in the single-row extract [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The latest permit-related action is dated September 18, 2025 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No CERCLA, TSCA, or EPCRA federal action was surfaced in the research bundle for the 24-month window specific to Worldport. That absence reflects the boundaries of the available dataset rather than a confirmed clean record under those statutes.

Worldport — Louisville, KY (EPA facility registry 110000884179). This is the sole facility in scope for this entity slug. ECHO records six quarters of noncompliance and $2,125,900 in allocated 24-month penalties, with zero active federal permits logged and the latest permit action dated September 18, 2025 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The hub occupies 5.2 million square feet and processes 416,000 packages per hour via 155 miles of conveyor, with more than 100 widebody aircraft arriving nightly [source: https://www.startuplouisville.com/articles/ups-worldport-louisville-largest-air-hub]. Scale matters here: a facility moving packages at that rate, with that volume of aircraft cycling through overnight, generates a compliance surface area that a single ECHO row cannot fully represent.

On November 4, 2025, a UPS widebody freighter crashed on departure from the adjacent Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, killing nine including three crew members, and UPS halted cargo sorting at Worldport before the airport reopened [source: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ups-worldport-louisville-nerve-center-global-logistics-2025-11-05/]. The ECHO EJ index average returned is 0.0, which reflects the single-row snapshot rather than neighborhood-level demographic context; local coverage has raised planning and land-use questions about the industrial corridor south of the airport following the crash [source: https://www.wdrb.com/news/future-of-industrial-area-south-of-louisville-airport-in-question-after-deadly-ups-crash]. Those land-use questions sit outside the ECHO dataset but are directly relevant to any forward-looking assessment of the facility's regulatory and community footprint. No other facilities are attached to this entity slug in the ECHO extract [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The ECHO exporter row for Worldport returns an empty top-pollutants array. No chemical-specific exceedance profile can be asserted from this dataset [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That gap does not mean the facility produces no regulated emissions — it means the single-row extract does not resolve to that level of detail.

Corporate-level RCRA enforcement against UPS has centered on hazardous-waste stream mismanagement — specifically failure to make land-disposal determinations and improper on-site handling of hazardous waste — as described in EPA's October 2022 nationwide release [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Exposure pathways for hazardous-waste mismanagement at parcel-sorting and fleet-maintenance facilities typically include soil contamination from drum storage areas, groundwater pathways via facility drains, and worker inhalation exposure during repackaging. EPA's own framing in the 2022 release emphasizes land-disposal determination failures as the central compliance gap [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Those pathways are generic to the facility type; they are not confirmed findings specific to the Worldport site.

Air-side pollutant context for Worldport is shaped by the Louisville hub's nightly rotation of more than 100 widebody aircraft [source: https://www.startuplouisville.com/articles/ups-worldport-louisville-largest-air-hub]. Aviation emissions fall primarily under FAA and state air-program jurisdiction and are not itemized in the ECHO single-facility record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The result is a pollutant picture that is structurally incomplete at the facility level — informative at the corporate enforcement level, but not resolvable to specific chemicals or exceedance thresholds for Worldport itself.

Within NAICS 492110, the three other UPS-linked ECHO entity records carry combined 24-month allocated penalties of approximately $22.8 million across 20 violations and 37 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Worldport entity's $2.13 million allocated penalty across a single facility places its per-facility penalty intensity above the parent UPS Inc. record — $10.64 million spread across 11 facilities works out to roughly $967,000 per facility, compared with Worldport's single-site figure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That per-facility differential is the most analytically useful comparison the ECHO data supports. All four entity records share a zero-value EJ index average in the ECHO snapshot, reflecting the exporter's single-row derivation rather than an underlying community-demographics finding [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS's 10-K filed February 17, 2026 directs investors to its Investor Relations site for material nonpublic information under Regulation FD and cautions that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The Item 1 business overview emphasizes a Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven strategy, $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue, 5.2 billion packages delivered, acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group, and a December 2025 agreement with USPS covering final-mile handoff for Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. That operational growth trajectory — more volume, more facilities, more fleet movements — runs directly against the compliance surface that produced six quarters of noncompliance at Worldport and two multi-facility RCRA consent agreements in three years. The Item 1A excerpt provided in the research bundle does not itemize a specific environmental contingency tied to Worldport; the 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 contains no standalone environmental disclosure excerpt [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. The November 4, 2025 freighter crash and the resulting land-use questions for the industrial corridor south of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport add a site-specific dimension that neither the 10-K nor the 10-Q addresses in the excerpts available.