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

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

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.

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.