PERI: Toxic 100 Index

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

(Click on column headers to re-sort table: current sort is by Pounds Sent To Incineration.)

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