Valero Renewable Fuels Llc*
Total reported releases 24k lb rose modestly year over year (+6%). Total releases concentrations are up 18% since 2010.
ONE VALERO PLACE, Aurora, South Dakota · 325193 · Chemicals · operated by Valero Energy CORP
Notable Signals
No notable signals at this facility for the current reporting year. See chemicals and equity context below for the full picture.
What This Facility Releases
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Formic acid
Formic acid concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde concentrations have fallen 29% since 2010.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have fallen 22% since 2013.
Acrolein
Acrolein concentrations have fallen 49% since 2010.
Cyclohexane
Cyclohexane concentrations have more than halved since 2011.
Benzene
Benzene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Brookings County County, SD (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 34,631. 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.