Toxic Release Inventory data for 2024. 12 facilities reported releasing 2-phenylphenol.
| Facility | State | On-site (lb) |
|---|---|---|
| Us Ecology Nevada Inc. Beatty | Nevada | 172.5k |
| Ecolab Inc Martinsburg | West Virginia | 6 |
| Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc Kimball | Nebraska | 2 |
| Veolia N.a. Inc. Sauget | Illinois | 2 |
| Clean Harbors El Dorado Llc El Dorado | Arkansas | 0 |
| Ross Incineration Services Inc Grafton | Ohio | 0 |
| Texas Refinery Corp Mansfield | Texas | 0 |
| Wexford Laboratories Inc Kirkwood | Missouri | 0 |
| Steris Corp St Louis Operations Saint Louis | Missouri | 0 |
| Abc Compounding Co. Inc. Conyers | Georgia | 0 |
| Hangsterfer's Laboratories Inc Mantua | New Jersey | 0 |
| Qualichem Inc Plant 1 Salem | Virginia | 0 |
The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) tracks how much of each listed chemical U.S. industrial facilities release into the environment each year. EPA requires facilities in certain industry sectors that manufacture, process, or otherwise use TRI-listed chemicals above threshold amounts to report annually. In 2024, 12 facilities reported releasing 2-phenylphenol to EPA's TRI program.
The primary release pathway is land disposal (172.5k lb), which includes landfills, surface impoundments, land treatment, and underground injection.
TRI data represents reported releases, not measured environmental concentrations. A facility reporting large releases of 2-phenylphenol is not necessarily causing harm at those levels — toxicity, exposure pathways, and local conditions all matter. Conversely, small reported amounts of highly toxic chemicals can pose greater risk than large amounts of less toxic ones. TRI is a transparency tool, not a risk assessment.
For health information about specific chemicals, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) publishes toxicological profiles, and EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) provides reference doses and cancer classifications.