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