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