PERI: Toxic 100 Index

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