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

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.