Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Akebono - Elizabethtown Plant have more than halved since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Akebono - Elizabethtown Plant
Total reported releases 57k lb fell meaningfully year over year (-31%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
300 RING RD, Elizabethtown, Kentucky · 336340 · Transportation Equipment · operated by Akebono Brake CORP
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations are up 88% since 2016.
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations are up 47% since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Nickel compounds
Nickel compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (10 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 15,066. Why we surface this →
31.7%
Low-income
22.7%
People of color
8.1%
Under age 5
13.9%
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.