Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde releases at Valero Lakota Plant rose from 2k lb to 14k lb (8.6×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Valero Lakota Plant
Total reported releases 29k lb more than tripled year over year (+288%). Total releases concentrations are up 58% since 2010.
1660 428TH ST, Lakota, Iowa · 325193 · Chemicals · operated by Valero Energy CORP
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Formic acid
Formic acid concentrations are up 77% since 2010.
Acrolein
Acrolein concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are up 31% since 2010.
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde concentrations are up 57% since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Kossuth County County, IA (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 14,718. Why we surface this →
10.5%
Low-income
7.3%
People of color
5.8%
Under age 5
24.7%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. 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.