Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
GE PHILADELPHIA PLANT
6901 ELMWOOD AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 19142
Parent company: GE CO
Top chemical totals
The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.
Full release table
Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.
| All values in pounds (lbs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | Copper | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Nitric acid | Total (lbs) |
| 1992 | — | 750 | — | — | — | 750 |
| 1991 | 13,084 | 750 | — | — | — | 13,834 |
| 1990 | 21,792 | 529 | — | — | — | 22,321 |
| 1989 | 26,267 | 1,229 | 250 | 250 | 250 | 28,246 |
| 1988 | 28,470 | — | 250 | — | — | 28,970 |
| 1987 | — | 750 | 250 | 250 | — | 1,250 |
▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.