Airgas Inc
40 facilities · 21 states · 1.0M lbs total releases
According to the EPA Toxics Release Inventory, Airgas Inc is the reported parent of 40 Form R facilities across 21 states, disclosing 1.0M lbs of toxic releases. 45 chemicals are reported; none carry a carcinogen classification in this extract. The heaviest-reporting state by release volume is Mississippi (604.6K lbs). Those TRI figures remain self-reported disclosure pounds across Airgas Inc's multi-state Form R set, not a measured public-health risk score.
Release-over-release change
What changed for Airgas Inc: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
+33.5%
33 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
+0.1%
208.2 thousand lb → 208.4 thousand lb, every facility that filed
Between the two reporting years, 1 facility filed for the first time and 1 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Airgas Inc's air releases rose from 48.5 thousand lb in 2022 to 64.8 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Airgas Inc's off-site transfers fell from 159.5 thousand lb in 2022 to 143.7 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
TRI parent disclosure trail
Read Airgas Inc from filing to facility
Largest Form R sites under this parent: Airgas Nitrous Oxide; Airgas Nitrous Oxide Corp; Airgas Dry Ice; Airgas Specialty Products-Waxahachie Tx. Neighbor parents on the disclosure ladder: Tronox Ltd; The Chemours Co. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Ammonia; Propylene; Ethylene; Dimethylamine. Heaviest-reporting states in this extract: Mississippi; Utah; California. Industry labels on the parent rollup: Chemicals; Chemical Wholesalers. Start from those named sites and neighbors rather than a generic parent blurb; pounds stay disclosure, not risk.
Largest Form R sites under this parent: Airgas Nitrous Oxide; Airgas Nitrous Oxide Corp; Airgas Dry Ice; Airgas Specialty Products-Waxahachie Tx. Neighbor parents on the disclosure ladder: Tronox Ltd; The Chemours Co. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Ammonia; Propylene; Ethylene; Dimethylamine. Heaviest-reporting states in this extract: Mississippi; Utah; California. Industry labels on the parent rollup: Chemicals; Chemical Wholesalers.
Airgas Inc ranks #623 of 4,988 slug-merged TRI parents, a smaller disclosed-volume parent relative to the national Form R parent set. Airgas Inc spans 21 states in this extract, placing it among the broader national TRI parent footprints. Airgas Inc's disclosed pounds are spread across 40 facilities, no single site dominates the parent total in this extract.
Parent aggregation for Airgas Inc follows facility-reported names. Compare the named neighbors (Tronox Ltd; The Chemours Co) before treating rank as a hazard score; TRI stays self-reported and unweighted by toxicity.
Where Airgas Inc sits among TRI parents
Airgas Inc sits on a disclosure ladder beside Tronox Ltd and The Chemours Co. Open those parents for a different facility count, state span, and chemical mix.
Higher disclosed volume
- Tronox Ltd · rank #621 · 64.0M lbs
- The Chemours Co · rank #622 · 59.1M lbs
Largest chemicals disclosed by Airgas Inc
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Ammonia; Propylene; Ethylene; Dimethylamine lead the Form R pound rollup for this parent, including filings such as Airgas Nitrous Oxide. Pound totals, not toxicity-weighted risk.
| Chemical | Disclosed lbs |
|---|---|
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 699.2K lbs |
| Ammonia | 320.5K lbs |
| Propylene | 24.9K lbs |
| Ethylene | 5.4K lbs |
| Dimethylamine | 52 lbs |
Where does this company operate?
| State | Facilities | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 2 | 604.6K lbs |
| Utah | 2 | 197.5K lbs |
| California | 3 | 108.3K lbs |
| Texas | 7 | 45.4K lbs |
| North Carolina | 1 | 16.4K lbs |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | 15.4K lbs |
| Florida | 3 | 13.4K lbs |
| Georgia | 2 | 7.6K lbs |
| Illinois | 1 | 7.6K lbs |
| Minnesota | 1 | 6.2K lbs |
| Colorado | 1 | 4.5K lbs |
| Virginia | 2 | 4.5K lbs |
| Maryland | 1 | 3.4K lbs |
| Ohio | 3 | 3.1K lbs |
| Iowa | 1 | 3.1K lbs |
| Indiana | 1 | 2.7K lbs |
| Michigan | 2 | 524 lbs |
| New York | 1 | 500 lbs |
| South Carolina | 1 | 0 lbs |
| Louisiana | 1 | 0 lbs |
| Kentucky | 1 | 0 lbs |
Facilities (40)
Frequently Asked Questions
How much pollution does Airgas Inc release?
How many facilities does Airgas Inc operate?
What industries and chemicals show up for Airgas Inc?
Compare beyond the release ladder
Nationwide peers by disclosed pounds & facility count
Cross-portfolio TRI parents nearest Airgas Inc on total disclosed release pounds (1.0M lbs) and reporting facility count (40). Release-volume peers include Mondelez International Inc, Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc, Votorantim Cimentos N.a. Inc. Facility-count peers include Valero Energy Corp, Eaton Corp, US Department of Justice. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of parents.
Similar disclosed release pounds
Nearest parents (≥3 facilities, ≥10k lbs) by absolute TRI disclosed pounds, not rank-adjacent ladder neighbors.
Similar facility count
Nearest parents by reporting-site count (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
About This Data
EPA TRI parent totals cover all media. This extract's heaviest states for the parent are Mississippi, Utah, California; facility-reported names can vary across subsidiaries.
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, TRI Basic Data Files
What to do with Airgas Inc's TRI parent record
From Airgas Inc, open Airgas Nitrous Oxide or compare against Tronox Ltd rather than reading rank alone.
- Open the largest Form R site for Airgas Inc (Airgas Nitrous Oxide in MS). Largest facility
- Compare against The Chemours Co, the next-higher disclosed-volume parent. Higher-volume parent
- Browse the full parent release ranking to see where Airgas Inc sits among all slug-merged TRI parents. All parent companies
Rank and peers (Tronox Ltd, The Chemours Co) are disclosure volume only, not toxicity-weighted risk or enforcement status.
Use and verify this record
Airgas Inc's record groups disclosed TRI parent-company filings so readers can compare reporting context without treating the total as a measure of risk.
Company release figures are computed directly from EPA Toxic Release Inventory data; source names and the record-linking method are documented in the methodology.
Primary sources
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory Basic Data Files - annual facility-level chemical-release disclosures
PlainEnviro renders public EPA records directly from its data pipeline; no figure on this page is typed in by an editor. See the editorial standards and corrections policy for how source changes and reported errors are handled.