Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) at Ashland Specialty Ingredients Gp have more than doubled since 2014 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Ashland Specialty Ingredients Gp
Total reported releases 1.5M lb rose modestly year over year (+9%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
1111 HERCULES RD, Hopewell, Virginia · 325199 · Chemicals · operated by Ashland LLC
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Notable Signals
Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Ashland Specialty Ingredients Gp have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
Methanol
Methanol releases at Ashland Specialty Ingredients Gp rose from 31k lb to 156k lb (5.0×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chloroethane
Chloroethane releases at Ashland Specialty Ingredients Gp rose from 47k lb to 76k lb between 2023 and 2024.
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 6. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations have more than doubled since 2014.
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol concentrations are up 85% since 2014.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Chloroethane
Chloroethane concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
tert-Butyl alcohol
tert-Butyl alcohol concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Ethylene
Ethylene concentrations have fallen 43% since 2010.
Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers concentrations have fallen 45% since 2014.
Chloroacetic acid
Chloroacetic acid concentrations have more than doubled since 2013.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (21 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 28,296. Why we surface this →
41.4%
Low-income
53.8%
People of color
6.6%
Under age 5
15.5%
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.