PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2019 Report, Based on 2017 Data)

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Toxic 100 Air Rank	Corporation	Toxic score (pounds released x toxicity x population exposure)	Millions of pounds of toxic air releases	Millions of pounds of toxic incineration transfers	EJ: Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share	% of toxic score from a single facility
50	Edwards Lifesciences	559,590	<0.01		52%	97%	100%
66	Targa Resources	351,290	0.04	<0.01	23%	86%	100%
89	ChemChina	223,878	0.25	0.54	25%	81%	98%
40	Chevron	807,162	2.52	0.06	20%	76%	68%
54	Lockheed Martin	521,882	0.01	0.01	25%	75%	100%
96	Schlumberger	189,054	<0.01	0.11	25%	75%	88%
59	TechnipFMC	420,463	<0.01		20%	74%	100%
62	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	368,213	1.14	<0.01	22%	74%	65%
12	TMS International	3,285,626	0.04		29%	74%	53%
79	Ecolab	265,619	0.09	1.99	16%	71%	57%
29	Lincoln Electric Holdings	1,188,497	0.01	<0.01	14%	71%	100%
19	Exxon Mobil	1,866,932	8.39	1.10	24%	69%	21%
98	Pemex	182,123	0.14	<0.01	18%	68%	100%
25	Occidental Petroleum	1,480,780	0.71	4.35	19%	67%	31%
30	Albemarle	1,149,571	0.49	1.77	18%	67%	94%
61	Huntington Ingalls Industries	374,187	0.28	0.04	24%	67%	88%
60	Formosa Plastics	397,561	1.31	15.72	22%	67%	65%
3	LyondellBasell	13,566,257	5.76	3.45	17%	67%	70%
36	Valero Energy	885,925	4.77	0.07	21%	66%	20%
28	Nucor	1,248,046	0.36		30%	66%	73%
45	Continental AG	646,231	0.21	<0.01	18%	66%	99%
39	PBF Energy	811,760	2.05	0.01	18%	64%	58%
64	Cardinal Health	355,693	<0.01		29%	64%	100%
31	Veolia Environnement	1,107,823	0.12	3.95	32%	63%	94%
90	Olin	214,431	0.27	1.52	22%	63%	65%
6	Mitsui	6,287,446	0.27	<0.01	24%	63%	100%
27	Phillips 66	1,330,294	4.57	0.01	18%	61%	28%
57	Carpenter Company	478,930	0.02	0.10	20%	61%	70%
15	Daikin	2,512,425	0.32	0.69	15%	61%	88%
5	Celanese	9,853,639	0.80	11.14	16%	60%	100%
65	Komatsu	353,087	0.01		24%	59%	61%
33	Marathon Petroleum	1,023,497	4.57	0.07	20%	59%	41%
38	ArcelorMittal	842,000	1.07	0.11	28%	59%	31%
16	Becton Dickinson	2,103,784	0.17	<0.01	20%	57%	40%
43	United States Steel	729,304	1.64	4.20	24%	57%	66%
26	Freeport-McMoRan	1,387,221	3.83	<0.01	26%	56%	97%
22	National Oilwell Varco	1,656,218	0.06		16%	56%	48%
18	Ashland Inc.	1,948,731	1.71	0.37	20%	55%	73%
51	O'Neal Industries	548,532	0.01		24%	55%	96%
77	Shin-Etsu Chemical	282,265	0.46	<0.01	20%	54%	62%
58	Total S.A.	450,096	0.81	<0.01	24%	52%	94%
73	Henkel	291,938	0.05	0.06	26%	51%	68%
74	DTE Energy	291,204	1.23	<0.01	28%	51%	96%
9	Royal Dutch Shell	4,029,725	3.33	1.79	17%	51%	56%
72	Carlyle Group	305,028	0.40	0.01	16%	50%	49%
14	Arconic	2,724,604	0.39	<0.01	20%	50%	42%
8	Eastman Chemical	4,786,673	5.41	0.47	21%	48%	76%
67	3M Company	340,706	1.98	8.83	16%	48%	46%
37	Praxair	857,700	0.27	<0.01	24%	47%	99%
80	SPX FLOW	260,254	<0.01		12%	47%	64%
82	Johnson & Johnson	254,038	0.04	0.04	13%	47%	70%
52	Medtronic	540,563	0.02	0.07	14%	46%	100%
84	Medline Industries	250,719	0.02		13%	46%	73%
17	Koch Industries	1,979,121	29.25	1.96	20%	44%	43%
1	Huntsman	25,585,371	1.09	10.71	16%	43%	73%
11	General Electric	3,510,955	1.63	0.03	24%	42%	46%
81	Caterpillar	256,264	0.07	0.01	12%	42%	59%
85	Graphic Packaging	246,689	5.02		32%	42%	81%
7	BASF	6,174,596	4.87	6.85	18%	42%	70%
70	Owens Corning	307,488	0.98	<0.01	19%	42%	18%
68	Trinity Industries	319,430	0.78		19%	40%	38%
4	DowDuPont	12,099,913	7.80	12.59	20%	39%	35%
71	International Paper	305,425	39.94	<0.01	20%	39%	18%
35	Stepan	902,404	0.31	1.80	11%	39%	77%
53	Ingredion	528,219	0.64	<0.01	16%	37%	55%
13	Berkshire Hathaway	3,225,154	2.37	1.07	18%	36%	24%
46	Emerson Electric	643,976	<0.01		11%	36%	40%
88	Leggett & Platt	229,527	0.16	<0.01	9%	35%	96%
2	Boeing	19,887,117	0.28	0.02	17%	35%	100%
78	BP	268,416	0.98	0.01	16%	35%	59%
55	Deere	510,001	0.17	<0.01	22%	34%	82%
97	Apollo Global Management	186,494	0.44	0.07	19%	32%	25%
47	Westlake Chemical	634,732	3.21	0.78	16%	32%	46%
92	Saint-Gobain	211,413	0.73	0.08	15%	32%	60%
69	Eaton	307,901	0.03	<0.01	11%	31%	63%
44	Robert Bosch	657,228	<0.01		11%	31%	98%
100	HollyFrontier	165,897	1.56	<0.01	17%	30%	38%
95	Nissan Motor Company	189,485	0.91	0.01	10%	30%	94%
20	Rio Tinto	1,764,907	0.10		10%	29%	83%
48	Tenneco	603,508	0.05	0.01	16%	28%	36%
83	Bayer	253,865	0.37	2.23	17%	28%	73%
76	HeidelbergCement	283,360	0.49		9%	28%	78%
32	Ametek	1,096,436	0.18		8%	28%	96%
93	Cargill	206,123	3.93	0.01	16%	27%	58%
87	Compass Group	238,459	0.02		11%	26%	100%
41	United Technologies	799,155	0.06	<0.01	11%	25%	59%
99	Parker-Hannifin	172,790	0.07	<0.01	16%	24%	69%
23	Kennametal	1,524,079	0.72		15%	24%	70%
94	AK Steel	197,877	0.21	0.02	20%	23%	36%
91	PPG Industries	213,728	0.22	0.18	15%	22%	70%
34	General Motors	958,296	3.36	0.02	16%	22%	85%
86	ABB Ltd.	239,992	0.10	0.01	14%	21%	90%
75	Archer Daniels Midland	284,629	11.10	<0.01	16%	20%	58%
24	Northrop Grumman	1,513,471	0.07	0.08	20%	15%	99%
21	Whirlpool	1,714,376	0.13		19%	14%	44%
49	Allegheny Technologies	587,815	0.50	0.03	13%	11%	35%
10	Oshkosh Corp.	3,867,689	0.19		18%	11%	100%
63	Colfax	356,881	<0.01	<0.01	31%	9%	99%
56	American Electric Power	489,025	2.39		14%	9%	43%
42	Baxter International	799,016	0.08		12%	5%	100%

Explanatory notes (For details, see the technical notes).

This edition of the Toxic 100 Air ranks companies by comparative chronic human health risk from air pollutants directly released or transferred to incinerators (and not destroyed) from large facilities in the US in 2017.

RSEI score: Estimated population chronic health human health risk from air releases and incineration transfers reported to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for the 2017 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.7) from quantity released, toxicity of chemicals, and population exposure. Data are adjusted by the Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP) for subsequent revisions to TRI data, including where available revisions to the share of hexavalent chromium in chromium releases.
Source: US EPA and Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP).

Quantity of toxic air releases and incineration transfers: Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals released to the air on-site or transferred offsite for incineration in the TRI 2017 Reporting Year, without adjustment for toxicity or population exposure.
Source: US EPA.

Environmental Justice (EJ): Poor Share and Minority Share: Shares of the total population health risk borne by people living below the poverty line or by people in minority racial/ethnic groups. In the U.S. population, 13 percent live below the poverty line and 39 percent are members of minority racial/ethnic groups.
Sources: US EPA, US Census, and CTIP.

Coverage: This table presents the RSEI Hazard score companies that appear on the Forbes World's Largest Public Companies list (2018, first 500 companies only), the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies list (2018 ranking), the Fortune 500 list (FY 2017-2018), the Fortune Global 500 (FY 2017-2018), or the S&P 500 as of 2/1/2019. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2018.
Source: CTIP.

The links from each parent name lead to an application that gives detailed facility and chemical information about the company. You can also search for companies not on the Toxic 100 Air. For more information on the data, see the technical notes.