Facility detail

OXBOW MIDWEST CALCINING LLC

12308 S NEW AVE, LEMONT, IL, 60439

Parent company: OXBOW CARBON & MINERALS HOLDINGS INC

Carcinogen PBT — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

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 Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Ethylene Propylene Vanadium compounds Total (lbs)
2023 — — — — — 3
2022 — — — — — 3
2021 — — — — — 3
2020 — — — — — 2
2019 — — — — — 3
2018 — — — — — 3
2017 — — — — — 2
2016 — — — — — 3
2015 — — — — — 3
2014 — — — — — 3
2013 40,000 400,000 — — 337 440,352
2012 45,000 420,000 — — 388 465,404
2011 48,000 460,000 1,100 — 401 509,517
2010 49,000 540,000 940 530 411 590,896
2009 34,576 390,000 1,506 402 — 426,495
2008 45,820 480,000 1,776 475 402 528,700
2007 50,446 560,000 1,776 475 442 613,155
2006 52,057 — 1,776 475 — 54,308
2005 52,061 — 1,776 475 — 54,312
2004 46,728 — 1,776 475 — 48,979
2003 42,318 — 1,776 475 — 44,569
2002 50,328 — 1,776 475 — 52,579
2001 44,491 — 1,776 475 — 46,742
2000 32,767 — 1,776 475 — 35,018
1999 29,026 — 1,776 475 — 31,277
1998 58,904 — 1,776 475 — 61,155
1997 65,140 — 1,776 475 — 67,391
1996 896,911 — 1,776 475 — 899,162
1995 822,839 — 1,776 475 — 825,090
1994 670,000 — 1,660 450 — 672,110
1993 810,000 — 1,700 770 — 812,470
1992 840,000 — 1,300 390 — 841,690
1991 770,000 — 1,300 390 — 771,690
1990 630,000 — 250 250 — 630,500
1989 570,000 — 750 750 — 572,250
1988 410,000 — 750 750 — 411,500

▎ 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.