Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds releases at Nucor Steel Kankakee INC rose from 9k lb to 21k lb (2.4×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Nucor Steel Kankakee INC
Total reported releases 491k lb held roughly steady year over year (+1%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
ONE NUCOR WAY, Bourbonnais, Illinois · 331110 · Primary Metals · operated by Nucor CORP
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Notable Signals
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds releases at Nucor Steel Kankakee INC rose from 16k lb to 32k lb between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2012.
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Nickel And Nickel Compounds
Nickel And Nickel Compounds concentrations are up 95% since 2010.
Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2015.
Barium And Barium Compounds
Barium And Barium Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2019.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (18 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 33,084. Why we surface this →
31.8%
Low-income
25.0%
People of color
5.7%
Under age 5
14.7%
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.