Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Ees Coke Battery LLC have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Ees Coke Battery LLC
Total reported releases 616k lb held roughly steady year over year (-1%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
1400 ZUG ISLAND, River Rouge, Michigan · 324199 · Petroleum · operated by Dte Energy Co
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Benzene
Benzene at Ees Coke Battery LLC have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
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) at Ees Coke Battery LLC have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
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 doubled since 2010.
Benzene
Benzene concentrations have more than doubled 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 have more than doubled since 2010.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations have more than doubled since 2012.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Chloromethane
Chloromethane concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 36% since 2010.
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2019.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (63 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 57,285. Why we surface this →
60.4%
Low-income
74.3%
People of color
6.7%
Under age 5
10.3%
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.