Methanol
Methanol releases at Chem Fluer/Firmenich INC rose from 68k lb to 177k lb (2.6×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Chem Fluer/Firmenich INC
Total reported releases 177k lb more than doubled year over year (+158%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2015.
150 FIRMENICH WAY, Newark, New Jersey · 325199 · Chemicals
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have more than doubled since 2019.
Dicyclopentadiene
Dicyclopentadiene concentrations are up 47% since 2019.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (127 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 200,653. Why we surface this →
38.4%
Low-income
76.5%
People of color
6.7%
Under age 5
12.1%
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.