Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) at Basf Corp have risen 94% since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Basf Corp
Total reported releases 1.6M lb held roughly steady year over year (+0%). Total releases concentrations are up 68% since 2010.
8404 HWY 75, Geismar, Louisiana · 325194 · Chemicals · operated by Basf CORP
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Notable Signals
Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Basf Corp have risen 68% since 2010 (through 2024).
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds releases at Basf Corp rose from 31k lb to 75k lb (2.4×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chlorobenzene
Chlorobenzene releases at Basf Corp rose from 21k lb to 33k lb between 2023 and 2024.
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 5. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations are up 94% since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 11% since 2010.
Sodium nitrite
Sodium nitrite concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Chlorobenzene
Chlorobenzene concentrations are up 74% since 2010.
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations have fallen 15% since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (1 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 2,902. Why we surface this →
2.9%
Low-income
22.8%
People of color
0.0%
Under age 5
23.2%
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.