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Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2021 Report, Based on 2019 Data)

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

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.