EPA TRI Facility · Chemicals
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant
Alvin, TX · Parent: Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc
- Total releases
- 94.0M lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 36
- Carcinogens
- 12
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant: how the 94.0M lbs splits
94.0M lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 93.1M lbs 99.0%
- Air Releases 690.1K lbs 0.7%
- Off-site Transfers 170.9K lbs 0.2%
- Water Discharges 35.4K lbs <0.1%
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant's 94.0M lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 99.0% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 0.7%. Leading chemical by pounds: Ammonia.
Carcinogen-classified pounds vs other reported pounds
Same cumulative TRI total as above, split by EPA/IARC carcinogen classification on each chemical: pounds share, not chemical count. Classification is not a site health-risk score.
HEAVY volume LAND pathway CARC-MID
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Alvin, TX, in the chemicals sector. It reported 18.4M lbs of releases across 35 chemicals in 2023, and 94.0M lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 15 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Texas's 2,016 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant leads reported pounds (94.0M lbs) at 36 chemicals (chemical-count #35). Veolia Es Technical Solutions LLC Port Arthur Facility leads chemical count at 246 chemicals (1.5M lbs, pounds #112). Reported volume fell against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Equistar Chemicals LP Chocolate Bayou Polymers Plant; Hc Manvel Inc.; Airgas Alvin Plant; Allied Petrochemical Plant. Similar-scale Chemicals peers outside Texas: Bayer Cropscience LP; Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC; Cornerstone Chemical Co LLC; Tronox LLC. Other Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc sites in this extract: Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC; Ascend Performance Materials Operations Llc-Decatur Plant; Ascend Performance Materials. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Ammonia; Acrylonitrile; Acrylamide; Formic acid.
In-state chemical count is not the pounds ranking
Texas TRI reporters with pounds > 0 and chemicals > 0 (n=2,016)
- Veolia Es Technical...
- Ascend Performance M... 36
What this shows Veolia Es Technical Solutions LLC Port Arthur Facility leads Texas chemical count. Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant leads reported pounds and sits at chemical-count #35. Chemical count is a disclosure mix, not toxicity or health risk.
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant stamps HEAVY volume with a dominant LAND pathway (99.0% land disposal) across 36 chemicals · 12 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 94.0M lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Bayer Cropscience LP and Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC.
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
94M lbs Top 1% higher than 100% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant inside Brazoria's TRI pounds
Among the 3,917 Chemicals facilities in this database, Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant reports the 2nd-largest volume, placing it in the top 0.1% of its sector. This one site accounts for 75.6% of every pound reported in Brazoria. Scale peers outside Texas include Bayer Cropscience LP and Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC.
County-dominant here means ≥25% of Brazoria's reported pounds (124.3M lbs county total). Shares only print when the site reports ≥1,000 lbs.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant's total reported releases fell from 18.8 million lb in 2022 to 18.4 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant's off-site transfers rose from 688 lb in 2022 to 163.7 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant's water releases fell from 6.7 thousand lb in 2022 to 5.2 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant's air releases rose from 126.1 thousand lb in 2022 to 149.4 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 94.0M lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 4% (19.1M lbs to 18.4M lbs).
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant: annual Form-R pounds
HEAVY site · LAND pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
What this shows Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 4% 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: Ammonia.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19.1M lbs | 31 |
| 2020 | 20.6M lbs | 33 |
| 2021 | 17.0M lbs | 33 |
| 2022 | 18.8M lbs | 33 |
| 2023 | 18.4M lbs | 35 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). 12 of 36 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant · LAND-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant
Closest other reporters in Texas - including Equistar Chemicals LP Chocolate Bayou Polymers Plant, Hc Manvel Inc., Airgas Alvin Plant, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 2,015 other reporting facilities in Texas.
Similar Chemicals Facilities
Other Chemicals facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Texas - e.g. Bayer Cropscience LP, Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC, Cornerstone Chemical Co LLC.
Compare beyond Texas
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant on cumulative reported pounds (94.0M lbs) and distinct chemical count (36). Release-pound peers include Robinson Nevada Mining Co, Chemical Waste Management, Bayer Cropscience LP. Chemical-count peers include Uss Gary Works, Evonik Corp Tippecanoe Laboratories, Hf Sinclair Parco Refining LLC. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of sites.
Similar reported release pounds
Nearest out-of-state reporters (≥1,000 lbs) by absolute TRI pounds, not same-industry or same-county neighbors.
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC, Ascend Performance Materials Operations Llc-Decatur Plant, Ascend Performance Materials.
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 Ammonia, Acrylonitrile, Acrylamide, Formic acid; nearby reporters include Equistar Chemicals LP Chocolate Bayou Polymers Plant. Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant stamps HEAVY volume · LAND pathway · CARC-MID carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
Use and verify this record
This Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant TRI extract (HEAVY · LAND · CARC-MID · lead Ammonia) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Alvin, TX, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 325180 · Chemicals. 75.6% of Brazoria TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Robinson Nevada Mining Co (Δ 894.4K lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant stamps HEAVY volume · LAND pathway · CARC-MID · lead Ammonia. 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