1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene releases at Baker Petrolite fell from 14k lb to 101 lb (99% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Baker Petrolite
Total reported releases 2k lb more than halved year over year (-96%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
5135 BOYLAN ST, Bakersfield, California · 424690 · Chemical Wholesalers · operated by Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Toluene
Toluene releases at Baker Petrolite fell from 14k lb to 453 lb (97% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Methanol
Methanol releases at Baker Petrolite fell from 17k lb to 2k lb (91% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have fallen 48% since 2010.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Xylene (mixed isomers)
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Ethylbenzene
Ethylbenzene concentrations are up 21% since 2010.
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Cumene
Cumene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Naphthalene
Naphthalene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (60 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 79,684. Why we surface this →
45.4%
Low-income
48.9%
People of color
7.0%
Under age 5
13.4%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.