Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS LLC*
ONE VALERO PLACE, AURORA, SD, 57002
Parent company: VALERO ENERGY CORP
Carcinogen
PBT
— 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 | Formic acid | n-Hexane | Acetaldehyde | Chlorine | Formaldehyde | Total (lbs) |
| 2024 | 1,727 | 7,303 | 13,072 | — | 737 | 23,770 |
| 2023 | 3,453 | 7,197 | 7,988 | — | 947 | 22,413 |
| 2022 | 3,352 | 6,892 | 7,941 | — | 919 | 21,585 |
| 2021 | 5,880 | 6,954 | 13,109 | — | 903 | 28,217 |
| 2020 | 6,240 | 6,736 | 5,369 | — | 766 | 20,250 |
| 2019 | 6,216 | 7,077 | 5,872 | — | 848 | 21,136 |
| 2018 | 4,941 | 6,747 | 7,552 | — | 816 | 21,111 |
| 2017 | 5,041 | 7,133 | 6,604 | — | 1,611 | 22,299 |
| 2016 | 5,074 | 8,091 | 8,878 | — | 1,925 | 25,307 |
| 2015 | 4,986 | 7,956 | 6,080 | — | 1,466 | 22,647 |
| 2014 | 9,330 | 7,569 | 7,205 | — | 1,937 | 27,365 |
| 2013 | 9,229 | 8,140 | — | — | 1,985 | 20,746 |
| 2012 | 10,791 | 8,056 | — | — | 1,513 | 21,050 |
| 2011 | 10,724 | 8,122 | 2,463 | — | 1,067 | 24,051 |
| 2010 | 10,647 | 7,583 | — | — | 1,032 | 20,113 |
| 2009 | 10,664 | 7,169 | — | — | 1,011 | 20,689 |
| 2008 | 11,000 | 7,001 | 2,424 | — | 1,110 | 23,303 |
| 2007 | 11,000 | 6,305 | — | 17 | 1,150 | 19,497 |
| 2006 | 17,000 | 6,800 | 4,552 | 20 | 1,260 | 32,117 |
| 2005 | 15,000 | 6,306 | 7,934 | 14,001 | 920 | 45,990 |
| 2004 | 17,000 | 5,903 | 8,535 | 12,007 | — | 44,517 |
| 2003 | 2,100 | 572 | 1,306 | — | — | 3,978 |
▎ 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.