Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2022 Report, Based on 2020 Data)


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78 Edwards Lifesciences 282,212 <0.01 49% 95% 100%
27 The Pritzner Organization 1,350,555 0.04 28% 68% 82%
81 Rolls-Royce 251,665 0.02 28% 67% 97%
89 Graphic Packaging 217,118 7.36 <0.01 26% 44% 76%
65 Clayton Dubilier & Rice 448,058 0.26 0.02 27% 76% 89%
25 Mitsui 1,490,049 0.08 <0.01 27% 70% 100%
59 Schlumberger 569,101 0.01 0.05 24% 42% 77%
21 Ashland Global Holdings 1,841,399 1.21 0.08 22% 56% 73%
33 Exxon Mobil 1,124,537 7.54 0.40 22% 71% 26%
74 Granite Construction 353,510 0.04 <0.01 22% 69% 92%
96 Commercial Metals Co. 199,375 0.07 28% 42% 65%
22 Northrop Grumman 1,822,474 0.48 0.12 19% 16% 99%
46 BP 780,049 0.98 <0.01 20% 35% 84%
53 Cleveland-Cliffs 681,654 1.15 0.58 25% 46% 20%
64 Goodyear Tire & Rubber 452,839 0.86 0.01 22% 81% 76%
68 United States Steel 403,834 1.46 0.28 23% 58% 74%
80 Targa Resources 251,868 0.04 22% 87% 100%
61 Nucor 547,521 0.50 0.01 22% 44% 21%
77 Formosa Plastics 330,991 1.88 11.21 23% 71% 73%
18 General Electric 2,138,110 0.33 <0.01 21% 26% 60%
29 Lockheed Martin 1,237,947 0.01 0.01 22% 77% 100%
44 Cenovus Energy 799,615 0.46 <0.01 20% 31% 82%
86 Archer Daniels Midland 240,018 10.78 20% 26% 51%
88 Huntington Ingalls Industries 217,848 0.16 0.03 20% 60% 78%
94 Henkel 204,428 0.05 0.03 23% 48% 69%
2 BASF 8,446,509 3.98 7.31 18% 37% 48%
20 Freeport-McMoRan 2,018,282 3.10 <0.01 22% 61% 98%
28 Eastman Chemical 1,259,296 4.12 1.07 20% 37% 55%
55 Valero Energy 613,845 3.38 0.03 20% 71% 31%
75 Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) 347,589 0.23 <0.01 18% 76% 100%
32 Howmet Aerospace 1,185,642 0.06 0.08 20% 37% 37%
34 Occidental Petroleum 1,044,798 0.61 4.00 18% 70% 37%
40 Linde 910,598 0.39 <0.01 21% 49% 99%
71 DuPont de Nemours 377,715 1.22 3.05 18% 19% 86%
85 International Paper 245,134 34.38 <0.01 19% 41% 18%
93 Olin Corp. 204,834 0.30 3.03 21% 67% 56%
6 Dow Inc. 4,778,935 5.55 7.65 19% 48% 34%
16 Standard Industries Inc. 2,422,587 0.86 0.48 18% 72% 94%
19 Shell PLC 2,072,243 1.88 0.02 15% 50% 48%
23 PPG Industries 1,813,397 0.58 0.43 16% 40% 62%
24 Albemarle 1,748,732 0.45 0.91 18% 72% 55%
36 Emerson Electric 992,616 0.01 18% 40% 66%
42 Evonik Industries 838,776 0.30 0.59 18% 38% 49%
47 Marathon Petroleum 778,814 4.25 0.08 19% 58% 31%
50 Akzo Nobel 731,815 0.10 0.06 19% 66% 100%
58 Koch Industries 572,658 27.99 1.92 18% 48% 34%
62 KKR & Co. 521,649 0.06 <0.01 18% 40% 74%
63 American Securities LLC 470,325 0.57 0.03 17% 27% 44%
1 LyondellBasell Industries 16,158,867 5.18 2.65 17% 70% 56%
15 Carlyle Group 2,478,525 0.54 0.18 17% 67% 53%
17 Kubota 2,201,049 0.01 14% 43% 100%
90 Owens Corning 215,445 0.82 <0.01 16% 44% 25%
92 Republic Services 207,800 0.01 0.13 19% 50% 75%
5 Huntsman Corp. 5,648,513 0.31 8.01 14% 56% 96%
14 Ecolab 2,802,073 0.01 0.91 16% 80% 99%
30 Klockner 1,221,717 <0.01 15% 47% 52%
49 Century Aluminum 759,378 1.93 <0.01 14% 8% 86%
54 Sasol 678,278 0.61 0.05 16% 26% 97%
69 PBF Energy 397,597 1.64 0.01 16% 62% 47%
84 Bayer 245,494 0.27 5.65 17% 34% 67%
9 Berkshire Hathaway 3,485,083 2.04 0.31 15% 36% 20%
38 Phillips 66 958,922 4.20 0.20 16% 60% 24%
41 Westlake Chemical 879,469 4.25 14.57 16% 28% 45%
43 Chevron 817,309 2.60 0.20 16% 69% 46%
48 Solvay 778,135 0.69 2.36 15% 57% 40%
57 Cornerstone Building Brands 593,698 0.14 15% 48% 48%
76 American Electric Power 342,648 1.42 12% 9% 62%
95 Gerdau 204,168 0.10 <0.01 14% 38% 44%
97 Medtronic 195,806 0.03 0.01 15% 48% 90%
7 Canopus International 4,740,512 1.42 1.45 15% 39% 95%
8 Celanese 4,448,268 1.03 8.40 14% 62% 100%
31 Baker Hughes 1,203,115 0.83 0.03 13% 46% 82%
39 Tenneco 942,678 0.09 <0.01 14% 28% 53%
45 General Dynamics 790,602 0.21 0.21 16% 64% 85%
51 Ingredion 713,524 0.59 15% 34% 65%
52 Siemens Energy 693,493 0.07 14% 54% 99%
70 Lotte Chemical 395,551 1.12 0.14 15% 24% 100%
79 Zimmer Biomet 260,804 <0.01 14% 55% 90%
4 Salzgitter 5,950,758 0.01 13% 67% 100%
56 Allegheny Technologies 595,416 0.26 0.08 13% 14% 51%
67 Middleby Corp. 420,579 <0.01 12% 20% 96%
73 Harsco 361,157 <0.01 0.62 14% 17% 46%
83 Johnson & Johnson 247,586 0.03 0.05 14% 46% 72%
10 NOV Inc. 3,425,685 0.37 <0.01 14% 55% 95%
60 Ardagh Packaging Group 565,803 2.40 13% 47% 75%
82 Lincoln Electric Holdings 250,378 <0.01 13% 72% 98%
98 AGCO Corp. 194,472 0.02 14% 10% 30%
100 Medline Industries 192,090 0.02 13% 52% 90%
26 Baxter International 1,453,506 0.05 0.01 12% 6% 100%
35 Ametek 1,032,011 0.18 11% 36% 94%
66 Faurecia SE 428,684 <0.01 10% 19% 66%
3 Becton Dickinson 6,185,402 0.16 <0.01 13% 44% 42%
72 Alcoa 368,679 3.10 0.03 11% 38% 78%
87 Tesla Inc. 236,729 0.30 0.11 11% 41% 95%
11 Terumo 3,257,534 0.04 10% 32% 100%
12 Saint-Gobain 3,085,417 0.80 0.25 10% 34% 98%
13 Rio Tinto 3,007,362 0.15 <0.01 9% 31% 90%
37 Kingspan plc 978,255 0.06 10% 16% 100%
99 Stepan 192,438 0.41 1.39 9% 39% 90%
91 Leggett & Platt 213,582 0.10 <0.01 8% 39% 89%

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 2020.

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 2020 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.10) 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 2020 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 2020 and 40 percent are members of minority racial/ethnic groups.  
Sources: US EPA, US Census, and CTIP.

Environmental Justice (EJ) Corrections: We have corrected a mismatch in Census geography in the initial publication of the 2020 Toxic 100 Air EJ. Of the 5,410 final parents in the entire dataset, 331, or 6%, of the parents, had an adjustment as a result of this correction by a factor of more than 20%. Of the 100 companies in the Toxic 100 Air, only 1 company had an adjustment by a factor of more than 20%. In this case, the share of the company burden borne by minorities was 5.6% rather than 7.6%. Detailed data one the adjustments are available on request.

Coverage: This table presents the RSEI companies that appear on the Forbes Global 2000 list, the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies list, the Fortune 500 list, the Fortune Global 500, the Russell 1000 list, oror the S&P 500.  Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of mid 2022.  
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.