Formic acid
Formic acid releases at Blue Flint Ethanol rose from 2k lb to 14k lb (5.6×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Blue Flint Ethanol
Total reported releases 31k lb more than doubled year over year (+195%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 20% since 2010.
2841 3RD ST SW, Underwood, North Dakota · 325193 · Chemicals · operated by Harvestone Group
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Formic acid
Formic acid concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Acrolein
Acrolein concentrations have more than doubled since 2013.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are up 47% since 2010.
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde concentrations have more than doubled since 2013.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations have fallen 14% since 2013.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
McLean County County, ND (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 9,781. Why we surface this →
6.9%
Low-income
12.3%
People of color
7.3%
Under age 5
24.6%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. 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.