Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
COLORADO REFINING CO
5800 BRIGHTON BLVD, COMMERCE CITY, CO, 80022
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 | Sodium sulfate (solution) | Toluene | Benzene | Cyclohexane | Methyl tert-butyl ether | Total (lbs) |
| 2004 | — | 12,061 | 7,483 | 2,019 | — | 64,755 |
| 2003 | — | 6,042 | 6,626 | 3,146 | — | 56,705 |
| 2002 | — | 6,674 | 7,035 | 3,420 | — | 56,610 |
| 2001 | — | 3,392 | 1,912 | 257 | — | 15,736 |
| 2000 | — | 5,286 | 2,403 | 431 | — | 22,420 |
| 1999 | — | 4,397 | 2,225 | 521 | — | 20,681 |
| 1998 | — | 3,358 | 2,858 | 1,403 | — | 20,080 |
| 1997 | — | 7,900 | 6,640 | 2,320 | — | 27,403 |
| 1996 | — | 12,700 | 10,900 | 4,400 | — | 62,460 |
| 1995 | — | 20,700 | 18,600 | 16,200 | 14,791 | 103,195 |
| 1994 | — | 25,300 | 20,380 | 4,620 | 19,049 | 83,074 |
| 1993 | — | 23,320 | 20,075 | 4,463 | 12,102 | 72,895 |
| 1992 | — | 18,380 | 15,087 | 2,296 | 6,211 | 61,423 |
| 1991 | — | 16,230 | 14,054 | 2,347 | 9,772 | 66,573 |
| 1990 | — | 6,700 | 10,150 | 11,610 | 7,593 | 50,399 |
| 1989 | — | 5,400 | 9,440 | 5,910 | 4,275 | 40,544 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11,850 | 14,960 | 4,924 | 49,232 |
| 1987 | 180,000 | — | 930 | — | — | 182,806 |
▎ 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.