Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
OLIN CORP. LAKE CHARLES PLANT
900 I-10 W., WESTLAKE, LA, 70669
Parent company: OLIN CORP
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 | Ammonia | Chlorine | Methanol | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | Dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12) | Total (lbs) |
| 1997 | 50,284 | 1,273 | — | — | — | 55,828 |
| 1996 | 84,499 | 21,753 | 11,103 | 256,265 | — | 420,200 |
| 1995 | 108,627 | 20,738 | 7,482 | 174,832 | — | 368,430 |
| 1994 | 185,702 | 33,410 | 16,816 | — | — | 291,884 |
| 1993 | 290,637 | 32,834 | 7,241 | — | 15,235 | 377,856 |
| 1992 | 231,783 | 33,925 | 9,610 | — | 92,000 | 424,779 |
| 1991 | 239,050 | 14,086 | 110,305 | — | 201,200 | 605,857 |
| 1990 | 225,539 | 11,906 | 134,090 | — | — | 420,052 |
| 1989 | 3,565,290 | 198,435 | 376,773 | — | — | 4,262,749 |
| 1988 | 4,861,467 | 373,547 | 706,235 | — | — | 6,026,871 |
| 1987 | — | 648,124 | — | — | — | 686,901 |
▎ 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.