Nitric acid
Nitric acid releases at Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer LP rose from 45k lb to 214k lb (4.7×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer LP
Total reported releases 1.5M lb rose sharply year over year (+42%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 31% since 2010.
HWY 3115 & HWY 30, Geismar, Louisiana · 325311 · Chemicals · operated by Nutrien US Topco LLC
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Notable Signals
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) at Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer LP have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds at Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer LP have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have fallen 27% since 2010.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations have fallen 27% since 2010.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Copper compounds
Copper compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Lead compounds
Lead compounds concentrations have fallen 38% since 2010.
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 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 (3 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 4,559. Why we surface this →
6.0%
Low-income
28.5%
People of color
13.0%
Under age 5
6.6%
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.