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Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2020 Report, Based on 2018 Data)

(Click on column headers to re-sort table: current sort is by EJ: Minority Share.)
34 Edwards Lifesciences 901,404 <0.01 48% 96% 100%
67 Targa Resources 332,436 0.04 23% 86% 100%
11 Ecolab 3,373,523 0.07 2.72 16% 79% 97%
61 Goodyear Tire & Rubber 385,674 1.14 0.06 22% 76% 69%
39 Chevron 759,988 1.92 0.08 17% 74% 60%
59 TechnipFMC 426,343 <0.01 19% 74% 100%
19 Albemarle 1,905,145 0.52 1.52 19% 73% 73%
41 Lincoln Electric Holdings 715,540 <0.01 <0.01 14% 72% 99%
63 Formosa Plastics 364,055 1.42 6.94 24% 72% 84%
21 Exxon Mobil 1,798,756 8.32 0.26 22% 70% 24%
28 Occidental Petroleum 1,385,291 0.65 8.68 18% 70% 44%
29 Akzo Nobel 1,354,130 0.15 0.13 19% 70% 62%
16 TMS International 2,157,246 0.03 29% 70% 53%
1 LyondellBasell 29,231,718 5.29 3.15 17% 68% 82%
79 Huntington Ingalls Industries 257,207 0.15 0.07 23% 68% 88%
14 Mitsui 2,673,498 0.12 0.01 25% 67% 100%
89 BAE Systems 228,432 0.02 24% 67% 62%
99 Carpenter Company 195,516 0.02 0.08 15% 64% 69%
33 Valero Energy 933,866 4.85 0.04 21% 64% 39%
32 Marathon Petroleum 1,132,246 4.55 0.14 20% 63% 46%
52 PBF Energy 516,711 1.99 0.01 19% 63% 53%
85 Cardinal Health 242,307 <0.01 27% 62% 100%
27 Daikin 1,435,413 0.31 45.60 14% 61% 78%
40 ArcelorMittal 726,673 1.07 0.07 27% 61% 26%
6 Celanese 5,910,376 0.75 8.52 15% 59% 100%
31 Freeport-McMoRan 1,255,205 4.19 <0.01 27% 58% 97%
36 Phillips 66 812,314 3.49 0.02 17% 57% 30%
37 Solvay 798,653 0.80 2.91 16% 57% 36%
12 National Oilwell Varco 2,920,067 0.45 15% 56% 57%
71 Komatsu 308,225 0.02 <0.01 22% 56% 56%
50 O'Neal Industries 569,458 0.01 25% 56% 92%
73 Cornerstone Building Brands 296,125 0.23 0.01 16% 56% 40%
17 Ashland Inc. 1,963,782 1.60 0.08 20% 54% 72%
78 Zimmer Biomet 262,031 <0.01 15% 54% 89%
54 United States Steel 489,723 1.76 8.05 24% 53% 46%
25 Becton Dickinson 1,498,073 0.20 <0.01 19% 53% 55%
24 Koch Industries 1,550,053 28.85 1.89 18% 52% 42%
10 Royal Dutch Shell 3,407,149 2.94 0.09 16% 52% 52%
22 Howmet Aerospace 1,780,490 0.10 0.05 23% 51% 35%
45 Pentair 642,355 0.02 20% 51% 100%
98 Medline Industries 199,675 0.03 13% 51% 87%
66 Medtronic 334,445 0.02 0.09 15% 48% 94%
35 Linde 841,011 0.56 <0.01 23% 48% 99%
92 Henkel 217,184 0.04 0.06 24% 48% 72%
3 Huntsman 14,244,096 0.45 6.78 15% 47% 57%
64 Ingredion 346,872 0.65 <0.01 16% 47% 60%
100 Spirit Aerosystems Holdings 190,429 0.60 21% 46% 100%
76 Johnson & Johnson 264,099 0.05 0.03 13% 46% 67%
75 Assa Abloy 283,354 0.16 <0.01 15% 45% 47%
70 Owens Corning 308,462 0.98 <0.01 18% 44% 24%
9 Eastman Chemical 3,441,572 5.14 1.94 20% 44% 79%
95 Total S.A. 208,738 0.78 <0.01 18% 44% 90%
84 Commercial Metals 246,684 0.06 31% 43% 65%
88 HeidelbergCement 228,673 0.50 9% 43% 46%
15 Kubota 2,308,809 0.01 16% 43% 100%
68 Illinois Tool Works 330,279 0.14 0.20 9% 42% 71%
5 Dow Inc. 10,641,781 5.46 10.04 20% 42% 21%
77 Graphic Packaging 264,011 7.35 30% 42% 79%
82 International Paper 249,597 35.47 <0.01 20% 41% 19%
62 Nucor 376,403 0.58 19% 41% 34%
56 BP 461,943 1.08 0.02 20% 40% 65%
81 Trinity Industries 255,312 0.07 23% 40% 85%
43 Emerson Electric 692,557 0.01 18% 40% 61%
90 Nutrien Ltd. 225,918 13.29 <0.01 15% 39% 65%
57 Carlyle Group 437,710 0.60 0.16 12% 39% 20%
7 General Electric 3,954,355 1.31 0.06 18% 39% 33%
46 Carpenter Technology 631,906 0.04 17% 38% 80%
60 Deere 406,676 0.18 <0.01 22% 37% 88%
80 Leggett & Platt 255,501 0.11 <0.01 8% 36% 97%
20 SPX FLOW 1,877,825 0.01 14% 35% 99%
38 Ametek 761,463 0.18 11% 35% 92%
4 BASF 11,936,031 5.26 8.29 20% 35% 44%
2 Boeing 20,061,951 0.25 0.02 15% 35% 100%
42 Tenneco 696,148 0.05 <0.01 17% 34% 39%
58 PPG Industries 427,692 0.29 0.31 14% 34% 35%
8 Terumo 3,811,676 0.03 0.05 10% 32% 100%
13 Berkshire Hathaway 2,726,538 2.24 0.55 17% 31% 24%
30 Evonik Industries 1,289,893 0.81 2.67 19% 31% 50%
72 Raytheon Technologies 302,461 0.07 <0.01 13% 31% 43%
23 Rio Tinto 1,664,647 0.11 <0.01 9% 30% 91%
69 Husky Energy 309,570 0.50 <0.01 20% 29% 97%
47 Westlake Chemical 618,653 3.15 0.92 16% 29% 36%
83 Compass Group 247,597 0.03 11% 27% 99%
26 Kennametal 1,481,713 1.03 14% 26% 63%
93 Cleveland-Cliffs 213,674 0.24 0.07 24% 26% 34%
87 Sasol 229,726 0.43 0.08 15% 25% 100%
96 ABB Ltd. 207,646 0.11 0.01 14% 22% 87%
91 Royal DSM 221,552 0.05 1.65 14% 22% 100%
86 Eaton 237,747 0.03 <0.01 11% 22% 82%
49 Parker-Hannifin 603,876 0.19 <0.01 16% 22% 72%
51 Middleby 529,837 <0.01 12% 21% 92%
97 Asahi Kasei 200,235 0.88 <0.01 14% 19% 100%
48 Kingspan PLC 616,315 0.05 10% 18% 100%
18 Northrop Grumman 1,929,303 0.11 0.11 19% 15% 99%
74 Whirlpool 286,162 0.17 16% 14% 48%
44 Allegheny Technologies 647,460 0.35 0.02 13% 13% 40%
94 Oshkosh Corp. 210,931 0.10 16% 11% 99%
65 American Industrial Partners 338,800 0.55 10% 10% 100%
55 American Electric Power 489,482 2.24 14% 9% 43%
53 Baxter International 500,792 0.03 0.19 14% 6% 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 2018.

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 2018 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.8) 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 2018 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 companies that appear on the Forbes World's Largest Public Companies 2020 list, the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies 2019 ranking, the Fortune 500 list for 2020, the Fortune Global 500 for 2020, or the S&P 500 as of 8/22/2020.  Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2020.  
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.