PERI: Toxic 100 Index

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.)

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
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.