Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
PRAXAIR INC
4400 KENNEDY AVE, EAST CHICAGO, IN, 46312
Parent company: PRAXAIR INC
Carcinogen
— EPA classifications across all reporting years
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 | Ethylene | Dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12) | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Ethylene oxide | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Total (lbs) |
| 1993 | — | 3,000 | 28 | — | — | 3,028 |
| 1992 | — | 6 | 249 | — | — | 255 |
| 1991 | 5,746 | 618 | 309 | 66 | — | 6,918 |
| 1990 | 44,936 | — | — | 56 | 152 | 45,210 |
| 1989 | 45,100 | — | — | 50 | 152 | 45,367 |
| 1988 | — | — | — | 50 | 76 | 126 |
| 1987 | — | — | — | 225 | — | 240 |
▎ 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.