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

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.