Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Mitsubishi Chemical La Porte have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Mitsubishi Chemical La Porte
Total reported releases 1.2M lb more than tripled year over year (+263%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
12220 STRANG RD, La Porte, Texas · 325211 · Chemicals · operated by Mitsubishi Chemical America INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Methanol
Methanol releases at Mitsubishi Chemical La Porte rose from 311k lb to 1.2M lb (3.9×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have more than doubled since 2014.
Vinyl acetate
Vinyl acetate concentrations are up 71% since 2010.
Ethylene
Ethylene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde 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 (8 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 11,051. Why we surface this →
35.7%
Low-income
58.7%
People of color
6.5%
Under age 5
12.0%
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.