Toluene
Toluene releases at Dagger Draw Gas Plant rose from 31k lb to 197k lb (6.3×) between 2023 and 2024.
Total reported releases 12.2M lb held roughly steady year over year (-3%). Total releases concentrations are up 61% since 2022.
278 PIPELINE RD, Artesia, New Mexico · 211130 · Natural Gas Processing · operated by Kinetik Holdings LP
Toluene releases at Dagger Draw Gas Plant rose from 31k lb to 197k lb (6.3×) between 2023 and 2024.
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Benzene concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Toluene concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
n-Hexane concentrations are up 32% since 2022.
Formaldehyde concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Acetaldehyde concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Acrolein concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Ethylbenzene concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Eddy County County, NM (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 61,264. Why we surface this →
Low-income
People of color
Under age 5
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.