EPA TRI Facility · Transportation Equipment
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.
Litchfield, MI · Parent: Tenneco Inc
- Total releases
- 491 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.: how the 491 lbs splits
491 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 491 lbs 100.0%
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.'s 491 lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Chromium.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CARC-LEAN
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Litchfield, MI, in the transportation equipment sector. It reported 87 lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2023, and 491 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 14,847 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Michigan's 791 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. is pounds #567 and chemical-count #529 at 491 lbs. Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp Dearborn Works leads reported pounds (53.0M lbs) at 17 chemicals (chemical-count #27). Eq Detroit Inc leads chemical count at 71 chemicals (14.0M lbs, pounds #5). Reported volume rose against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Brembo Homer Foundry; Calhoun Foundry Co Inc.; Woodworth Inc Homer; Brembo Na. Similar-scale Transportation Equipment peers outside Michigan: Watson & Chalin Manufacturing Inc; Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.; Eagle Bend Manufacturing Inc; St Engineering Hackney Inc. Other Tenneco Inc sites in this extract: Tenneco Braking (frmly Federal-Mogul Motorparts Llc); Driv Automotive Inc.; Tenneco; Federal-Mogul Corp. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Chromium; Nickel.
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 2 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 491 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Watson & Chalin Manufacturing Inc and Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc..
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
491 lbs 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. in the Transportation Equipment sector extract
Among the 1,603 Transportation Equipment facilities in this database, Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. reports the 956th-largest volume (491 lbs). Scale peers outside Michigan include Watson & Chalin Manufacturing Inc and Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc..
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.'s total reported releases rose from 73 lb in 2022 to 87 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.'s air releases rose from 73 lb in 2022 to 87 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 491 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 32% (128 lbs to 87 lbs).
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 32% from 2019 to 2023). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Chromium.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 128 lbs | 2 |
| 2020 | 94 lbs | 2 |
| 2021 | 109 lbs | 2 |
| 2022 | 73 lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 87 lbs | 2 |
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc.
Closest other reporters in Michigan - including Brembo Homer Foundry, Calhoun Foundry Co Inc., Woodworth Inc Homer, ordered by distance.
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Similar Transportation Equipment Facilities
Other Transportation Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Michigan - e.g. Watson & Chalin Manufacturing Inc, Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc., Eagle Bend Manufacturing Inc.
Other Tenneco Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Tenneco Braking (frmly Federal-Mogul Motorparts Llc), Driv Automotive Inc., Tenneco.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Chromium, Nickel; nearby reporters include Brembo Homer Foundry. Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-LEAN carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
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This Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CARC-LEAN · lead Chromium) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Litchfield, MI, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 336390 · Transportation Equipment. 0.4% of Hillsdale TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Church & Dwight Co. Inc. (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Tenneco Automotive Operating Co Inc. stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-LEAN · lead Chromium. PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov