UNITED PARCEL SVC INC/PHILA AIR HUB

United Parcel Service Inc./Phila Air Hub (EPA Facility ID 110001100291) is a single-facility registration tied to UPS's Philadelphia International Airport operation, the company's second-largest U.S. air hub by throughput [source: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/20120325_UPS_makes_Philadelphia_a_major_airfreight_crossroad.html]. The EPA ECHO exporter snapshot dated May 4, 2026 records zero quarters with noncompliance at this facility over the trailing 24 months. No active permits are indexed under this registration. The most recent permit action is dated February 10, 2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

A derived 24-month penalty figure of $2,126,059.20 is allocated to this facility ID using ECHO's documented derivation methodology (penalty_24mo = total_5yr × 24/60). That figure is a proportional allocation of historical federal penalty totals — not a new enforcement action against the Philadelphia hub. Readers should treat it accordingly.

UPS parent-company filings disclose no material pending environmental proceedings specific to the Philadelphia air hub in either the February 17, 2026 Form 10-K or the November 5, 2025 Form 10-Q [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm] [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. At the enterprise level, UPS reported $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and delivered 5.2 billion packages while continuing execution of a 2050 carbon-neutrality roadmap [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm] [source: https://investors.ups.com/esg]. The broader UPS registrant family in ECHO — spanning three sibling entries labeled UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS), UNITED PARCEL SERVICES, and UNITED PARCEL SVC — carries 20 combined 24-month violations and $22.8 million in aggregated 24-month derived penalties across 37 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That enterprise-wide picture contrasts sharply with the clean record returned for the Philadelphia hub alone, and analysts building a full UPS environmental exposure profile must aggregate across all four ECHO registrants to capture the complete compliance surface.

The Philadelphia Air Hub facility registration (EPA ID 110001100291) returns a clean 24-month noncompliance count in the ECHO exporter snapshot dated May 4, 2026 — zero violations, zero active permits indexed, and a latest permit date of February 10, 2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2,126,059.20 penalty figure attached to this single facility ID is a proportional derivation of five-year federal penalty totals under the documented ECHO methodology (penalty_24mo = total_5yr × 24/60). No discrete administrative order, consent agreement, or judicial action naming this specific registration surfaced in EPA enforcement portals reviewed for this brief.

The most material federal enforcement touching UPS in the prior cycle is the June 16, 2021 EPA Region 6 settlement with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. That action resolved alleged hazardous waste regulation violations at facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. It pre-dates the 24-month review window but remains the anchor event from which current derived penalty allocations flow through ECHO's five-year look-back. The Philadelphia hub is not named in that settlement. Over the trailing 24 months ending Q1 2026, no new federal consent decree specific to EPA ID 110001100291 has been indexed in the research bundle. UPS's February 17, 2026 Form 10-K does not identify the Philadelphia hub as a separately disclosed environmental contingency and contains no Item 1A language specific to this site [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

Two operational developments over the same 24-month window bear on how the hub's compliance profile may evolve. First, a December 2025 agreement with USPS assigns UPS responsibility for final-mile delivery on portions of Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026. Second, on February 19, 2026, UPS announced the closure of 22 U.S. facilities [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm] [source: https://thestreet.com/retail/ups-reveals-22-facilities-to-close-nationwide]. Network contraction of that scale materially changes the facility footprint against which any future ECHO-derived allocations will be computed. On the community side, a separate UPS project in Far Northeast Philadelphia — the proposed Budd Co. site warehouse — has faced organized neighborhood opposition and litigation since 2022. That site is a ground distribution proposal, distinct from the Philadelphia International Airport air hub covered by EPA ID 110001100291 [source: https://www.inquirer.com/business/ups-philly-community-opposition-warehouse-amazon-20220605.html] [source: https://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2020/11/11/bust].

No new 24-month federal enforcement action specifically naming EPA Facility ID 110001100291 (UPS Philadelphia Air Hub) appears in the ECHO exporter snapshot dated May 4, 2026. The violation count over that window is zero, and the $2,126,059.20 figure is a 24/60 allocation of five-year federal penalty totals under the documented derivation [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The allocated figure does not represent a discrete new fine.

The historical anchor for current derived allocations is the EPA Region 6 settlement announced June 16, 2021 with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. Under that agreement, the respondents committed to corrective action on alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations under the RCRA program at facilities spanning Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The action is regional in scope and does not cite the Philadelphia hub. One additional record warrants a disambiguation note: a 2015 RCRA consent agreement in EPA Region 3 — In the Matter of United Color Manufacturing, Inc., Docket No. RCRA-03-2015-0075 — occasionally surfaces in search results alongside UPS Philadelphia records but involves an entirely different respondent and is not attributable to UPS [source: https://yosemite.epa.gov/oa/rhc/epaadmin.nsf/Filings/006DCA2A087C2A0185257DFA00213D38/$File/United%20Color%20Manufacturing,%20Inc.,%20RCRA,%20SCAFO.pdf].

At the broader registrant level, ECHO data shows three sibling UPS entries carrying meaningful compliance histories. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) records 8 quarters with noncompliance and $10,640,000 in derived 24-month penalties across 11 facilities. UNITED PARCEL SERVICES records 6 quarters and $6,424,160 across 10 facilities. UNITED PARCEL SVC records 6 quarters and $5,760,000 across 16 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Program-level attribution — whether individual quarterly flags arise under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, or RCRA — is not itemized in the exporter summary provided.

UPS Philadelphia Air Hub, Philadelphia, PA (EPA ID 110001100291) is the sole facility in this registration. ECHO reports zero 24-month violations, zero active permits indexed, a latest permit date of February 10, 2026, and an EJ index average of 0.0 in the snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That 0.0 figure indicates the exporter did not return populated EJScreen percentile values for this registration — it is not an affirmative finding of no environmental-justice exposure in the surrounding community. The hub sits adjacent to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) and ranks as UPS's second-largest U.S. air cargo hub by historical throughput, processing tens of thousands of packages daily [source: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/20120325_UPS_makes_Philadelphia_a_major_airfreight_crossroad.html] [source: https://airportinsightfind.com/phl-airport].

Because this registrant has a facility_count of 1, the remaining four slots in a conventional top-five facility ranking are not applicable. For context on the wider UPS Philadelphia-area footprint, a separate proposed UPS distribution center at the former Budd Co. site in Far Northeast Philadelphia has drawn community opposition and litigation. Residents have cited traffic and air quality concerns since at least 2022. That site is a ground operation and does not fall under EPA ID 110001100291 [source: https://www.inquirer.com/business/ups-philly-community-opposition-warehouse-amazon-20220605.html] [source: https://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2020/11/11/bust]. Any assessment of cumulative UPS exposure in the Philadelphia metro must treat the air hub and the proposed ground warehouse as separate regulatory objects with separate compliance histories.

ECHO's top_pollutants array for EPA ID 110001100291 is empty in the May 4, 2026 snapshot. No TRI- or DMR-reported pollutant tonnages are associated with this specific registration in the exporter [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That absence reflects how regulatory obligations are structured at airport-adjacent cargo facilities, where emissions accounting typically flows through the airport operator rather than through individual tenant registrations.

Three pollutant categories are the standard regulatory focus at air cargo operations, per EPA reference materials, though none are quantified here. Mobile-source criteria pollutants — principally nitrogen oxides (NOx) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) — represent the dominant exposure pathway from aircraft engines and ground-support equipment. These are regulated under Clean Air Act Title V permitting at the airport operator level, not through UPS's facility registration. Jet-fuel handling and de-icing operations introduce a second category: Clean Water Act stormwater obligations tied to propylene glycol and related constituents that can reach surface waters via runoff. Third, maintenance operations generate hazardous waste streams — used oil, solvents, batteries — that fall under RCRA. That third category was the statutory basis for the June 2021 Region 6 settlement against UPS and TForce Freight [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. EJ implications at PHL specifically cannot be quantified from the data provided, because the EJ index average returned 0.0 — a null or unpopulated value — for this registration [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Within NAICS 492110/49211, the Philadelphia Air Hub registration — one facility, zero 24-month violations, $2.13M in derived penalties — is materially smaller by facility footprint than its three sibling UPS registrants, which together cover 37 facilities and $22.8 million in aggregated derived 24-month penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The air hub's zero-violation record compares favorably on a per-facility basis to the UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) registrant, which averages roughly 0.73 quarters-with-noncompliance per facility over the same window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That per-facility ratio is a useful normalizing metric precisely because the four registrants vary so widely in facility count — from 1 to 16. Analysts tracking UPS enterprise environmental exposure should aggregate across all four UPS-prefixed ECHO registrants to capture the full compliance surface.

UPS's Form 10-K filed February 17, 2026 contains the standard forward-looking statements caveat directing investors to monitor the Investor Relations website and SEC filings. It describes the "Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven" strategy alongside 2025 acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group. Item 1A does not isolate a Philadelphia-hub-specific environmental risk factor [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Item 7 MD&A references consolidated operating expenses and liquidity without site-level environmental contingency quantification in the excerpt available [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Three forward variables are worth flagging. The February 19, 2026 announcement of 22 U.S. facility closures will reshape the registrant's facility footprint and, by extension, the denominator in future ECHO-derived metrics [source: https://thestreet.com/retail/ups-reveals-22-facilities-to-close-nationwide]. The December 2025 USPS agreement adds final-mile volume beginning in 2026, potentially increasing throughput at surviving hubs including Philadelphia. And the ongoing litigation tied to the proposed Far Northeast Philadelphia ground warehouse, while outside EPA ID 110001100291, represents a community-relations variable that could affect permitting timelines for any future UPS ground infrastructure in the metro area.