UNITED PARCEL SVC

United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS; CIK 0001090727) operates a 16-facility footprint tied to the HOUMA, LA registrant record under NAICS 49211. EPA ECHO data as of May 4, 2026 shows 6 quarters with noncompliance events in the trailing 24 months and a derived penalty total of $5.76 million over that window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The most recent permit action on the registrant's linked facilities dates to August 30, 2023. ECHO reports zero currently active permits attached to this specific registrant slug [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The 2025 10-K, filed February 17, 2026, reports $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and an average 20.8 million packages delivered per day — the operational scale against which compliance exposure is measured [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

The dominant compliance event in the public record is the October 19, 2022 EPA consent agreement resolving Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste allegations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. That action followed a June 16, 2021 Region 6 settlement covering 183 locations and carrying a $3.8 million civil penalty [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]. Shareholder pressure on environmental justice has since taken concrete form: As You Sow filed a resolution on November 13, 2025 requesting a third-party environmental justice audit [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit]. Operational restructuring runs alongside these compliance developments. UPS disclosed plans to close 27 additional parcel facilities in 2026, bringing the full-year closure count to 51 sites [source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ups-close-27-additional-parcel-134020058.html].

The compliance record across the 24 months preceding the May 4, 2026 ECHO extract centers on RCRA hazardous waste management rather than Clean Water Act (CWA) or Clean Air Act (CAA) stack emissions. ECHO's derivation note specifies that the 24-month violation count is capped at eight quarters of noncompliance and the penalty total is prorated from a five-year aggregate, producing the reported 6 quarters and $5.76 million figure for the HOUMA-registered slug [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Peer records under the same NAICS 492110 classification carry 8 and 6 quarters of noncompliance and $10.64 million and $6.42 million in derived 24-month penalties respectively — a signal that ECHO maintains multiple registrant identities for the UPS corporate family [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The chronological record starts with EPA Region 6's June 16, 2021 Consent Agreement and Final Order. That order resolved alleged RCRA violations at 183 UPS and TForce Freight facilities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, imposing a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month corrective timeline [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement] [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups]. Sixteen months later, on October 19, 2022, EPA announced a nationwide settlement expanding scope to 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. The allegations included failure to make land disposal determinations and to properly conduct on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Trade press reported the national penalty at approximately $5.3 million [source: https://www.law360.com/real-estate-authority/commercial/articles/1]. The 2024–2025 public docket then shifted away from federal enforcement toward shareholder and network-structure developments, culminating in the As You Sow audit resolution dated November 13, 2025 [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

Into 2026, compliance-adjacent disclosures have focused on footprint contraction and commercial agreements rather than new EPA actions. UPS disclosed the closure of 22 facilities in a February 2026 round [source: https://thestreet.com/retail/ups-reveals-22-facilities-to-close-nationwide], then announced 27 additional closures in late April 2026 [source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ups-close-27-additional-parcel-134020058.html]. The Bluegrass UPS Facility in Louisville is scheduled to close June 2, 2026, affecting 65 positions under the WARN Act [source: https://wdrb.com/news/business/dozens-of-workers-impacted-by-upcoming-ups-closure-in-louisville/article_6aa200b3-3eb2-4c7c-a37b-e4dce1fe1304.html]. A December 2025 agreement with the U.S. Postal Service for final-mile delivery of Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes, effective 2026, will shift transportation emissions accounting between the two entities [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 carries no environmental-specific excerpt in the compiled bundle [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].

Action 1 — EPA Region 6 RCRA settlement, announced June 16, 2021. Program: RCRA Subtitle C hazardous waste. Facilities covered: 183 UPS and TForce Freight locations in AR, LA, OK, NM, and TX. Outcome: Consent Agreement and Final Order requiring compliance within 24 months plus enhanced noncompliance prevention programs. Civil penalty: $3,800,000 [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement] [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

Action 2 — EPA nationwide RCRA settlement, announced October 19, 2022. Program: RCRA. Facilities covered: 1,160 UPS locations across 45 states and Puerto Rico. Alleged conduct per EPA: failure to make land disposal determinations and to conduct proper on-site management of hazardous waste. Outcome: consent agreement and final order requiring implementation of environmental policies to prevent future noncompliance [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Reported civil penalty: approximately $5.3 million per Law360 coverage [source: https://www.law360.com/real-estate-authority/commercial/articles/1].

Action 3 — ECHO aggregate for the HOUMA-registered slug. Program: multi-media (RCRA-weighted based on available enforcement documentation). Quarters with noncompliance in trailing 24 months: 6. Derived penalty total: $5,760,000 (ECHO derivation: total 5-year penalties × 24/60) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The underlying 16 facility IDs are 110008388805, 110000921904, 110070431704, 110003330100, 110007411354, 110008387101, 110001038715, 110003026216, 110008386807, 110005092835, 110010275790, 110017582604, 110033623176, 110000919132, 110005858919, and 110018337646 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No CWA NPDES permit is listed as active on the registrant record. The most recent permit-event date is August 30, 2023 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

ECHO attaches 16 facility IDs to the HOUMA-registered UPS slug without resolved site names in the extract. The following paragraphs combine those ECHO identifiers with publicly named sites surfaced in the 24-month news and disclosure record [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Bluegrass UPS Facility, Louisville, Kentucky. WDRB reporting from April 2026 identified the Bluegrass Parkway site as scheduled to close June 2, 2026, with a WARN notice covering 65 positions [source: https://wdrb.com/news/business/dozens-of-workers-impacted-by-upcoming-ups-closure-in-louisville/article_6aa200b3-3eb2-4c7c-a37b-e4dce1fe1304.html]. The site is not individually tagged as a violator in the ECHO extract. Its closure nonetheless reshapes the Kentucky compliance footprint and the universe of hazardous-waste generator points covered by the 2022 consent order [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Staten Island delivery footprint, New York. A New York Times report dated April 28, 2026 documents UPS's refusal to deliver inside two Staten Island residential buildings and active litigation from affected residents [source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/nyregion/ups-staten-island-packages-lines.html]. This is a service-access matter rather than an EPA violation. It intersects, however, with the community-impact themes referenced in the As You Sow 2025 resolution [source: https://www.asyousow.org/resolutions/2025/11/13-ups-third-party-environmental-justice-audit].

Southern California warehouse cluster. Earthjustice and People's Collective for Environmental Justice research dated April 2021 maps logistics-industry warehouse siting in the Inland Empire to disparate air-quality impacts in communities identified under CalEnviroScreen, with UPS named among the operators [source: https://earthjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/warehouse_research_report_4.15.2021.pdf]. NASA JPL research published October 9, 2024 quantifies elevated pollution signatures near Los Angeles-area warehouses [source: https://jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-funded-study-assesses-pollution-near-los-angeles-area-warehouses]. Together, these two data sets establish a documented concentration gradient extending outward from loading docks in the region.

EPA Region 6 footprint (AR, LA, OK, NM, TX). The 2021 Region 6 consent order covered 183 locations across the five-state territory within which the HOUMA, LA registrant sits. That geographic overlap creates a direct documentary link between the registrant's home state and the national RCRA enforcement trail [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Twenty-two facilities flagged for closure in February 2026. TheStreet reported the named list of 22 union-staffed facilities scheduled for 2026 closure [source: https://thestreet.com/retail/ups-reveals-22-facilities-to-close-nationwide]. The additional 27 closures announced late April 2026 bring the 2026 total to 51 sites, materially contracting the regulated universe going into the 2026–2027 reporting cycle [source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ups-close-27-additional-parcel-134020058.html].

The ECHO top_pollutants field is empty for this registrant slug. The pollutant narrative is therefore drawn from enforcement documents and third-party research describing the waste streams generated by parcel-sort and freight operations [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

First: RCRA-listed hazardous wastes from damaged-package handling. EPA's October 2022 release identifies failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste as the core allegation set against UPS [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Damaged consumer-chemical shipments routed through sort hubs can include ignitable, corrosive, and toxic wastes. Mismanagement exposure pathways include soil and groundwater impacts at the generator site and at downstream treatment-storage-disposal facilities.

Second: diesel particulate matter and NOx from heavy-duty truck fleets serving sort and cross-dock locations. NASA JPL's October 2024 study finds elevated pollution near Los Angeles warehouses, aligning with the Earthjustice-affiliated 2021 analysis attributing cumulative PM2.5 and NOx burden to concentrated truck traffic in disadvantaged communities [source: https://jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-funded-study-assesses-pollution-near-los-angeles-area-warehouses] [source: https://earthjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/warehouse_research_report_4.15.2021.pdf]. Exposure pathways are inhalation-dominant. Measured concentration gradients decline with distance from loading docks.

Third: refrigerants and cold-chain chemistries associated with UPS's healthcare logistics expansion. The 2025 10-K reports more than $11 billion in healthcare revenue and the acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group, both of which expand cold-chain capabilities and, by extension, the HFC/HFO refrigerant footprint [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Refrigerant leak reporting falls under CAA Section 608. The current EPA record in the supplied bundle does not document Section 608 enforcement against UPS, and the ECHO pollutant field remains null [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Within NAICS 492110, ECHO maintains three overlapping UPS registrant identities. The UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) slug carries 8 quarters of noncompliance and a $10.64 million derived 24-month penalty across 11 linked facilities. UNITED PARCEL SERVICES carries 6 quarters and $6.42 million across 10 facilities. The present UNITED PARCEL SVC registrant carries 6 quarters and $5.76 million across 16 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Summed across all three registrant identities, the 24-month derived exposure exceeds $22 million. Analysts should treat that consolidated figure as the corporate-level compliance signal rather than reading any single slug in isolation. All three peer rows report an EJ index average of 0.0 — a product of empty pollutant-exposure fields in the source extract, not an independent demographic finding [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The Item 1A discussion in the 10-K filed February 17, 2026 directs readers to treat forward-looking statements as subject to the limitations and risks described in the filing. UPS states that it 'does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances, changes in expectations or the occurrence of unanticipated events after the date of those statements, except as required by law' [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The same filing highlights several network-restructuring decisions that each carry environmental-compliance implications the company will need to integrate. The USPS final-mile agreement signed December 2025 shifts scope-1 emissions boundaries as postal volumes transfer between entities. The Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions expand cold-chain refrigerant management obligations. The RFID rollout to 5,500 UPS Store locations alters asset-tracking requirements. Altered generator-status determinations will also apply at the 51 facilities slated for 2026 closure [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm] [source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ups-close-27-additional-parcel-134020058.html].