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Rank in Toxic 100: 28
Rank among all TRI companies: 69
Air releases 2017 (lbs): 357,044
Incineration transfers 2017 (lbs): 0
Total Air and Incineration Toxic Score 2017: 1,248,046
Percentage of national total 2017 toxic air and incineration score: 0.3%
EJ: Poor Share: 30%
EJ: Minority Share: 66%

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This company is rank 43 on the Toxic 100 Water list.
This company has information in PERI's Greenhouse database.

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Lead compounds 4,311 0 2,955 0.24% 34.1% 76.1%
Chromium compounds 4,686 0 1,037,580 83.14% 31.0% 69.8%
Nickel compounds 2,292 0 87,827 7.04% 28.2% 63.9%
Copper compounds 2,606 0 152 0.01% 27.2% 63.0%
Glycol Ethers 186,935 0 1,304 0.10% 22.5% 43.6%
Manganese compounds 27,082 0 7,078 0.57% 21.6% 47.6%
Zinc compounds 61,027 0 51 0.00% 20.9% 46.0%
Mercury compounds 4,572 0 447 0.04% 19.6% 47.8%
Chromium 90 0 66,932 5.36% 19.4% 25.3%
Nickel 73 0 3,602 0.29% 19.1% 26.0%
Propylene (Propene) 279 0 0 0.00% 18.9% 24.5%
Nitric acid 337 0 2 0.00% 18.6% 33.5%
Arsenic compounds 7 0 89 0.01% 18.5% 53.3%
Vanadium compounds 116 0 0 0.00% 17.6% 35.6%
Xylene (mixed isomers) 35,394 0 18 0.00% 17.5% 11.4%
Manganese 1,437 0 776 0.06% 17.4% 25.2%
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) 0 0 1 0.00% 17.0% 46.4%
Lead 16 0 19 0.00% 17.0% 28.2%
Barium compounds 638 0 20 0.00% 16.1% 37.3%
Cobalt compounds 0 0 5 0.00% 15.7% 17.8%
Cadmium compounds 301 0 8,713 0.70% 15.2% 22.0%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 7,691 0 30,445 2.44% 14.3% 28.5%
Hydrochloric acid 17,153 0 28 0.00% 13.0% 29.2%
Copper 0 0 0 0.00% 12.2% 38.8%

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