Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Big Spring Carbon Black Plant have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Big Spring Carbon Black Plant
Total reported releases 147k lb rose modestly year over year (+14%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
1211 NORTH MIDWAY ROAD, Big Spring, Texas · 325180 · Chemicals · operated by Tokai Carbon Cb
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations are up 16% since 2023.
Carbon disulfide
Carbon disulfide concentrations have fallen 41% since 2010.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations have fallen 36% since 2012.
Carbonyl sulfide
Carbonyl sulfide concentrations have fallen 41% since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have more than doubled since 2020.
Polycyclic aromatic compounds
Polycyclic aromatic compounds concentrations are up 74% since 2010.
Hydrogen cyanide
Hydrogen cyanide concentrations have fallen 17% since 2010.
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene 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
Within 3 miles of this facility (2 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 2,236. Why we surface this →
22.5%
Low-income
33.9%
People of color
4.6%
Under age 5
13.9%
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.