PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2021 Report, Based on 2019 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
58	Edwards Lifesciences	532,032	<0.01		48%	95%	100%
80	Targa Resources	290,338	0.04		22%	86%	100%
77	ChemChina	303,102	0.24	0.13	23%	83%	99%
10	Ecolab	3,247,008	0.06	1.35	16%	79%	97%
91	Schlumberger	237,726	<0.01	0.21	25%	78%	92%
35	Lockheed Martin	1,163,147	0.02	0.01	22%	77%	100%
70	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	390,887	0.96	0.06	22%	77%	71%
63	TechnipFMC	432,289	<0.01		19%	75%	100%
23	Albemarle	1,793,564	0.49	0.93	18%	73%	79%
54	Lincoln Electric Holdings	623,060	<0.01	<0.01	13%	72%	99%
11	Carlyle Group	3,116,719	0.59	0.15	17%	70%	61%
25	Exxon Mobil	1,758,433	8.16	0.45	21%	70%	29%
32	Occidental Petroleum	1,369,928	0.59	8.40	18%	70%	40%
73	Formosa Plastics	341,852	1.31	6.86	22%	70%	66%
24	TMS International	1,782,250	0.03		28%	69%	84%
26	Mitsui	1,674,870	0.09	0.01	26%	69%	100%
2	LyondellBasell	12,599,132	5.15	3.14	16%	68%	70%
38	Chevron	1,084,686	2.69	0.15	16%	68%	46%
45	General Dynamics	779,711	0.22	0.10	16%	66%	90%
47	Akzo Nobel	739,414	0.09	<0.01	19%	66%	99%
39	Valero Energy	1,081,893	4.51	0.13	18%	64%	32%
87	Granite Construction	252,782	0.03	<0.01	20%	63%	79%
51	PBF Energy	676,473	2.04	0.01	16%	62%	45%
7	Celanese	5,791,002	0.83	7.32	14%	61%	100%
40	Freeport-McMoRan	989,241	4.45	<0.01	22%	61%	96%
33	Phillips 66	1,291,471	4.60	0.12	16%	60%	30%
57	United States Steel	540,865	1.88	1.38	23%	59%	73%
86	BAE Systems	255,433	0.02	<0.01	22%	59%	72%
46	Solvay	765,976	0.82	3.41	15%	58%	38%
69	Clean Harbors Inc.	393,545	0.17	9.62	22%	58%	42%
22	Ashland Global Holdings	1,855,777	1.53	0.14	22%	56%	71%
81	Cornerstone Building Brands	285,023	0.20		15%	56%	48%
12	O'Neal Industries	3,084,376	<0.01		23%	55%	95%
84	Zimmer Biomet	260,572	<0.01		14%	55%	90%
15	Royal Dutch Shell	2,782,459	2.07	0.01	15%	54%	47%
30	Becton Dickinson	1,421,105	0.17	<0.01	16%	53%	57%
27	Marathon Petroleum	1,649,704	4.52	0.17	16%	52%	35%
96	Pentair	221,891	0.01		19%	51%	100%
36	Koch Industries	1,134,098	28.02	1.36	18%	50%	33%
71	Henkel	353,382	0.06	<0.01	24%	50%	84%
6	Dow Inc.	6,858,422	5.89	9.03	19%	49%	45%
74	Medtronic	324,092	0.02	0.06	15%	49%	93%
4	Linde	9,615,218	0.37	<0.01	15%	48%	78%
44	Cleveland-Cliffs	828,444	1.39	0.11	25%	47%	20%
8	Baker Hughes	3,747,413	0.65	0.03	17%	46%	41%
93	General Motors	232,498	3.04	0.01	17%	46%	38%
100	Spirit Aerosystems Holdings	209,298	0.50		20%	46%	100%
3	Huntsman	11,137,063	0.69	6.68	14%	45%	54%
9	Eastman Chemical	3,440,587	4.88	1.50	20%	44%	80%
56	KKR & Co.	560,864	0.04	<0.01	17%	44%	76%
13	Howmet Aerospace	3,074,691	0.24	0.12	16%	43%	41%
17	Kubota	2,525,918	0.01		14%	43%	100%
83	Graphic Packaging	270,561	8.12		26%	43%	80%
94	HeidelbergCement	231,246	0.41		8%	43%	49%
55	Trinity Industries	571,581	0.11		24%	42%	45%
95	Owens Corning	223,836	0.83	<0.01	16%	42%	25%
98	Assa Abloy	214,764	0.10	<0.01	12%	42%	98%
48	Emerson Electric	729,205	0.01		18%	41%	69%
76	Johnson & Johnson	313,525	0.03	0.05	13%	41%	56%
92	Commercial Metals Co.	235,070	0.06		29%	41%	70%
43	Evonik Industries	833,926	0.57	0.49	18%	40%	45%
49	Carpenter Technology	727,772	0.04		17%	40%	79%
50	Canopus International	722,464	1.92	0.04	16%	40%	70%
75	Leggett & Platt	316,711	0.13	0.05	8%	39%	91%
14	Berkshire Hathaway	2,985,197	2.31	0.55	15%	38%	22%
21	Tesla Inc.	1,914,425	0.31	0.13	11%	38%	100%
34	Air Products & Chemicals	1,275,573	0.26	<0.01	13%	38%	100%
85	International Paper	260,182	34.27	<0.01	19%	38%	19%
31	Ametek	1,382,868	0.19		11%	37%	95%
1	Boeing	21,105,144	0.25	0.01	14%	36%	100%
5	BASF	8,834,947	5.02	7.32	19%	36%	40%
78	Umicore	292,304	0.01		17%	36%	69%
97	Lonza	220,228	0.30	0.12	16%	35%	37%
18	Saint-Gobain	2,240,652	0.62	0.07	10%	34%	99%
53	Ingredion	624,621	0.54		15%	34%	63%
65	Nucor	415,220	0.55	<0.01	17%	34%	25%
60	Terumo	504,457	0.04		10%	33%	100%
42	Tenneco	891,180	0.11		16%	31%	38%
61	Westlake Chemical	487,073	3.12	1.16	16%	31%	25%
20	Rio Tinto	1,968,937	0.12	<0.01	8%	30%	89%
64	Deere	417,781	0.17	<0.01	18%	30%	89%
28	Kennametal	1,563,228	1.34		13%	28%	63%
19	General Electric	2,079,308	0.54	0.05	22%	26%	62%
68	Sasol	403,777	0.80	0.16	16%	26%	100%
79	PPG Industries	292,124	0.36	1.43	14%	25%	50%
82	Raytheon Technologies	272,904	0.06	<0.01	11%	25%	47%
90	Eaton	242,395	0.11		11%	24%	88%
99	ABB Ltd.	211,457	0.09	0.02	13%	23%	86%
62	Middleby Corp.	463,336	<0.01		12%	22%	90%
88	Royal DSM	244,695	0.05	1.28	14%	22%	100%
41	Parker-Hannifin	904,778	0.33	1.74	16%	21%	83%
59	Stellantis	525,399	1.36	0.07	11%	21%	53%
66	DuPont de Nemours	414,261	1.40	3.35	18%	20%	82%
37	Kingspan plc	1,106,209	0.04		10%	16%	100%
16	Northrop Grumman	2,620,892	0.31	0.12	19%	15%	99%
89	Whirlpool Corp.	244,469	0.20		17%	15%	50%
52	Allegheny Technologies	650,071	0.21	0.08	13%	13%	46%
72	American Industrial Partners	345,080	0.67	0.02	9%	11%	99%
67	American Electric Power	413,991	1.87		13%	10%	51%
29	Baxter International	1,501,401	0.03	0.14	12%	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 2019.

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 2019 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.9) 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 2019 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, 10.5 percent lived below the poverty line in 2019 and 40 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 Global 2000 list, the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies 2020 ranking, the Fortune 500 list for 2021, the Fortune Global 500 for 2021, or the S&P 500 as of 9/24/2021. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2021.
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.