Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
MOSAIC PHOSPHATES CO FAUSTINA PLANT
9959 HWY LA 18, SAINT JAMES, LA, 70086
Parent company: THE MOSAIC CO
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 | Phosphoric acid | Ammonia | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Methanol | Sodium sulfate (solution) | Total (lbs) |
| 2024 | — | 317,000 | — | 140,000 | — | 458,566 |
| 2023 | — | 263,000 | — | 190,000 | — | 454,302 |
| 2022 | — | 284,000 | — | 130,000 | — | 414,721 |
| 2021 | — | 452,000 | — | 130,000 | — | 582,081 |
| 2020 | — | 390,303 | — | 169,138 | — | 560,592 |
| 2019 | — | 254,305 | — | 122,061 | — | 377,725 |
| 2018 | — | 318,642 | — | 210,181 | — | 531,477 |
| 2017 | — | 274,441 | — | 144,248 | — | 421,928 |
| 2016 | — | 296,176 | — | 233,372 | — | 533,149 |
| 2015 | — | 429,953 | — | 236,938 | — | 671,289 |
| 2014 | — | 1,008,440 | — | 220,962 | — | 1,234,795 |
| 2013 | — | 1,443,473 | — | 234,347 | — | 1,682,431 |
| 2012 | — | 843,554 | — | 229,600 | — | 1,077,248 |
| 2011 | — | 932,726 | — | 79,218 | — | 1,013,034 |
| 2010 | — | 1,217,908 | — | 257,800 | — | 1,482,796 |
| 2009 | — | 2,220,814 | — | 244,700 | — | 2,465,620 |
| 2008 | — | 1,339,372 | 1 | 220,256 | — | 1,563,890 |
| 2007 | — | 1,389,784 | 0 | 266,514 | — | 1,660,385 |
| 2006 | — | 2,004,739 | 43 | 216,647 | — | 2,235,119 |
| 2005 | — | 2,511,599 | 1 | 213,120 | — | 2,733,027 |
| 2004 | — | 1,373,578 | 13 | 247,262 | — | 1,629,267 |
| 2003 | — | 1,432,983 | 72 | — | — | 1,433,377 |
| 2002 | — | 1,633,742 | — | 59,926 | — | 1,693,754 |
| 2001 | — | 726,938 | — | 24,765 | — | 753,716 |
| 2000 | — | 3,313,664 | — | 51,625 | — | 3,367,287 |
| 1999 | — | 4,878,942 | 60,287 | 66,585 | — | 5,006,280 |
| 1998 | 6,218,556 | 6,435,064 | 63,103 | 75,405 | — | 12,804,512 |
| 1997 | 5,318,454 | 7,120,440 | 68,607 | 77,005 | — | 12,585,421 |
| 1996 | 5,751,639 | 6,872,168 | 70,527 | 81,245 | — | 12,794,917 |
| 1995 | 5,017,074 | 6,553,579 | 65,658 | 66,640 | — | 11,712,893 |
| 1994 | 6,936,678 | 5,822,960 | 68,602 | 70,965 | — | 12,911,097 |
| 1993 | 114,131,366 | 4,921,808 | 8,802,325 | 57,311 | — | 127,912,967 |
| 1992 | 72,637,005 | 6,528,650 | 11,454,250 | 72,005 | — | 90,800,120 |
| 1991 | 67,595,305 | 11,740,150 | 14,320,250 | 76,005 | — | 93,843,660 |
| 1990 | 36,836,105 | 14,387,500 | 5,239,750 | 74,205 | — | 56,607,515 |
| 1989 | 616,100 | 16,412,800 | 221,850 | 2,250 | — | 17,313,350 |
| 1988 | — | — | — | — | — | 74,100 |
| 1987 | — | 14,391,505 | — | 501,130 | 5,196,000 | 20,158,765 |
▎ 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.