Ammonia
Ammonia releases at Western Sugar Cooperative rose from 18k lb to 110k lb (6.1×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Western Sugar Cooperative
Total reported releases 124k lb rose meaningfully year over year (+20%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 40% since 2010.
2100 E OVERLAND DR, Scottsbluff, Nebraska · 311313 · Food · operated by Western Sugar Cooperative
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
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0000050000 releases at Western Sugar Cooperative fell from 45k lb to 0 lb (100% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
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0000079210 releases at Western Sugar Cooperative fell from 14k lb to 0 lb (100% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 20% since 2010.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2022.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (20 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 19,896. Why we surface this →
32.5%
Low-income
34.7%
People of color
6.3%
Under age 5
19.1%
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.