Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde releases at Benedum Gas Plant rose from 43k lb to 111k lb (2.6×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Benedum Gas Plant
Total reported releases 169k lb more than tripled year over year (+255%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
10501 HIGHWAY 1555, Rankin, Texas · 211130 · Natural Gas Processing · operated by Energy Transfer LP
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Benzene
Benzene concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Methanol
Methanol volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Cyclohexane
Cyclohexane volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Upton County County, TX (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 3,284. Why we surface this →
20.3%
Low-income
59.7%
People of color
8.1%
Under age 5
16.4%
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.