PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2022 Report, Based on 2020 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	LyondellBasell Industries	16,158,867	5.18	2.65	17%	70%	56%
2	BASF	8,446,509	3.98	7.31	18%	37%	48%
3	Becton Dickinson	6,185,402	0.16	<0.01	13%	44%	42%
4	Salzgitter	5,950,758	0.01		13%	67%	100%
5	Huntsman Corp.	5,648,513	0.31	8.01	14%	56%	96%
6	Dow Inc.	4,778,935	5.55	7.65	19%	48%	34%
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%
9	Berkshire Hathaway	3,485,083	2.04	0.31	15%	36%	20%
10	NOV Inc.	3,425,685	0.37	<0.01	14%	55%	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%
14	Ecolab	2,802,073	0.01	0.91	16%	80%	99%
15	Carlyle Group	2,478,525	0.54	0.18	17%	67%	53%
16	Standard Industries Inc.	2,422,587	0.86	0.48	18%	72%	94%
17	Kubota	2,201,049	0.01		14%	43%	100%
18	General Electric	2,138,110	0.33	<0.01	21%	26%	60%
19	Shell PLC	2,072,243	1.88	0.02	15%	50%	48%
20	Freeport-McMoRan	2,018,282	3.10	<0.01	22%	61%	98%
21	Ashland Global Holdings	1,841,399	1.21	0.08	22%	56%	73%
22	Northrop Grumman	1,822,474	0.48	0.12	19%	16%	99%
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%
25	Mitsui	1,490,049	0.08	<0.01	27%	70%	100%
26	Baxter International	1,453,506	0.05	0.01	12%	6%	100%
27	The Pritzner Organization	1,350,555	0.04		28%	68%	82%
28	Eastman Chemical	1,259,296	4.12	1.07	20%	37%	55%
29	Lockheed Martin	1,237,947	0.01	0.01	22%	77%	100%
30	Klockner	1,221,717	<0.01		15%	47%	52%
31	Baker Hughes	1,203,115	0.83	0.03	13%	46%	82%
32	Howmet Aerospace	1,185,642	0.06	0.08	20%	37%	37%
33	Exxon Mobil	1,124,537	7.54	0.40	22%	71%	26%
34	Occidental Petroleum	1,044,798	0.61	4.00	18%	70%	37%
35	Ametek	1,032,011	0.18		11%	36%	94%
36	Emerson Electric	992,616	0.01		18%	40%	66%
37	Kingspan plc	978,255	0.06		10%	16%	100%
38	Phillips 66	958,922	4.20	0.20	16%	60%	24%
39	Tenneco	942,678	0.09	<0.01	14%	28%	53%
40	Linde	910,598	0.39	<0.01	21%	49%	99%
41	Westlake Chemical	879,469	4.25	14.57	16%	28%	45%
42	Evonik Industries	838,776	0.30	0.59	18%	38%	49%
43	Chevron	817,309	2.60	0.20	16%	69%	46%
44	Cenovus Energy	799,615	0.46	<0.01	20%	31%	82%
45	General Dynamics	790,602	0.21	0.21	16%	64%	85%
46	BP	780,049	0.98	<0.01	20%	35%	84%
47	Marathon Petroleum	778,814	4.25	0.08	19%	58%	31%
48	Solvay	778,135	0.69	2.36	15%	57%	40%
49	Century Aluminum	759,378	1.93	<0.01	14%	8%	86%
50	Akzo Nobel	731,815	0.10	0.06	19%	66%	100%
51	Ingredion	713,524	0.59		15%	34%	65%
52	Siemens Energy	693,493	0.07		14%	54%	99%
53	Cleveland-Cliffs	681,654	1.15	0.58	25%	46%	20%
54	Sasol	678,278	0.61	0.05	16%	26%	97%
55	Valero Energy	613,845	3.38	0.03	20%	71%	31%
56	Allegheny Technologies	595,416	0.26	0.08	13%	14%	51%
57	Cornerstone Building Brands	593,698	0.14		15%	48%	48%
58	Koch Industries	572,658	27.99	1.92	18%	48%	34%
59	Schlumberger	569,101	0.01	0.05	24%	42%	77%
60	Ardagh Packaging Group	565,803	2.40		13%	47%	75%
61	Nucor	547,521	0.50	0.01	22%	44%	21%
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%
64	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	452,839	0.86	0.01	22%	81%	76%
65	Clayton Dubilier & Rice	448,058	0.26	0.02	27%	76%	89%
66	Faurecia SE	428,684	<0.01		10%	19%	66%
67	Middleby Corp.	420,579	<0.01		12%	20%	96%
68	United States Steel	403,834	1.46	0.28	23%	58%	74%
69	PBF Energy	397,597	1.64	0.01	16%	62%	47%
70	Lotte Chemical	395,551	1.12	0.14	15%	24%	100%
71	DuPont de Nemours	377,715	1.22	3.05	18%	19%	86%
72	Alcoa	368,679	3.10	0.03	11%	38%	78%
73	Harsco	361,157	<0.01	0.62	14%	17%	46%
74	Granite Construction	353,510	0.04	<0.01	22%	69%	92%
75	Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)	347,589	0.23	<0.01	18%	76%	100%
76	American Electric Power	342,648	1.42		12%	9%	62%
77	Formosa Plastics	330,991	1.88	11.21	23%	71%	73%
78	Edwards Lifesciences	282,212	<0.01		49%	95%	100%
79	Zimmer Biomet	260,804	<0.01		14%	55%	90%
80	Targa Resources	251,868	0.04		22%	87%	100%
81	Rolls-Royce	251,665	0.02		28%	67%	97%
82	Lincoln Electric Holdings	250,378	<0.01		13%	72%	98%
83	Johnson & Johnson	247,586	0.03	0.05	14%	46%	72%
84	Bayer	245,494	0.27	5.65	17%	34%	67%
85	International Paper	245,134	34.38	<0.01	19%	41%	18%
86	Archer Daniels Midland	240,018	10.78		20%	26%	51%
87	Tesla Inc.	236,729	0.30	0.11	11%	41%	95%
88	Huntington Ingalls Industries	217,848	0.16	0.03	20%	60%	78%
89	Graphic Packaging	217,118	7.36	<0.01	26%	44%	76%
90	Owens Corning	215,445	0.82	<0.01	16%	44%	25%
91	Leggett & Platt	213,582	0.10	<0.01	8%	39%	89%
92	Republic Services	207,800	0.01	0.13	19%	50%	75%
93	Olin Corp.	204,834	0.30	3.03	21%	67%	56%
94	Henkel	204,428	0.05	0.03	23%	48%	69%
95	Gerdau	204,168	0.10	<0.01	14%	38%	44%
96	Commercial Metals Co.	199,375	0.07		28%	42%	65%
97	Medtronic	195,806	0.03	0.01	15%	48%	90%
98	AGCO Corp.	194,472	0.02		14%	10%	30%
99	Stepan	192,438	0.41	1.39	9%	39%	90%
100	Medline Industries	192,090	0.02		13%	52%	90%

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.