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