PERI: Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index

Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2023 Report, Based on 2021 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
17	Edwards Lifesciences	2,097,590	<0.01	0.02	49%	95%	100%
84	Targa Resources	253,880	0.04		22%	87%	100%
6	Garmin	5,617,577	0.05		14%	86%	100%
29	Carlyle Group	1,619,712	0.56	0.14	18%	80%	92%
54	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	560,103	1.22	0.05	23%	80%	81%
76	Ecolab	287,287	0.01	0.24	16%	80%	99%
70	Lockheed Martin	335,553	0.02	0.01	22%	77%	99%
77	Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)	284,976	0.23	<0.01	18%	76%	100%
25	Standard Industries Inc.	1,795,935	1.05	1.03	18%	72%	93%
34	Griffon Corp.	1,174,651	0.06	0.02	22%	72%	100%
14	Albemarle	2,226,435	0.44	<0.01	17%	71%	58%
31	Mitsui	1,565,687	0.08	0.39	27%	70%	100%
35	Occidental Petroleum	1,033,289	0.68	3.86	18%	70%	35%
53	Valero Energy	580,062	3.52	0.01	20%	69%	22%
60	Formosa Plastics	434,389	1.45	19.32	22%	69%	66%
94	Olin Corp.	222,762	0.36	3.12	21%	69%	62%
1	LyondellBasell Industries	26,676,890	6.11	2.52	16%	68%	74%
20	Exxon Mobil	1,962,418	7.74	0.75	19%	68%	41%
5	Salzgitter	6,099,192	0.01		13%	67%	100%
27	Pritzker Organization	1,657,113	0.03		28%	67%	79%
67	Akzo Nobel	353,073	0.13	0.08	19%	66%	100%
96	Rolls-Royce	211,289	0.01		28%	66%	96%
69	PBF Energy	337,517	1.55	0.01	16%	64%	54%
85	Bio-Rad Laboratories	252,680	0.01	0.43	12%	64%	100%
22	Celanese	1,909,352	0.77	8.65	15%	63%	99%
30	NOV Inc.	1,572,597	0.29		13%	62%	63%
21	Freeport-McMoRan	1,918,798	3.30	<0.01	22%	61%	98%
95	Huntington Ingalls Industries	219,470	0.23	0.04	20%	61%	82%
57	Chevron	469,170	2.85	0.05	16%	59%	27%
39	Phillips 66	978,217	4.31	0.16	16%	58%	39%
41	Koch Industries	939,991	27.78	3.36	19%	58%	67%
16	Huntsman Corp.	2,119,487	0.34	7.35	15%	57%	89%
24	Ashland Global Holdings	1,866,878	0.96	0.11	22%	56%	72%
37	Ardagh Packaging Group	1,006,966	2.17		16%	56%	52%
48	Marathon Petroleum	750,014	3.41	0.10	19%	56%	30%
18	Shell PLC	2,074,329	1.62	0.06	15%	54%	42%
49	Siemens Energy	745,194	0.01		14%	54%	99%
81	Zimmer Biomet	270,422	<0.01		14%	54%	88%
36	Croda International	1,031,109	0.02	<0.01	17%	52%	94%
38	Solvay	988,649	0.75	3.54	15%	52%	34%
83	United States Steel	257,918	1.76	5.27	21%	51%	58%
98	Henkel	207,139	0.05	0.02	23%	50%	75%
8	Dow Inc.	4,582,836	5.59	13.02	19%	49%	33%
46	Howmet Aerospace	800,109	0.05	0.02	19%	49%	36%
55	Medtronic	521,039	0.02	0.06	15%	49%	95%
62	Republic Services	407,504	0.03	0.12	18%	49%	82%
50	Cleveland-Cliffs	627,342	1.01	0.42	26%	48%	21%
52	Linde	614,753	0.41	<0.01	16%	48%	59%
91	Johnson & Johnson	238,445	0.04	0.03	14%	48%	71%
87	Owens Corning	243,278	1.05	<0.01	16%	45%	26%
92	Spirit AeroSystems	232,239	0.39	0.01	20%	45%	100%
33	Evonik Industries	1,210,764	0.31	0.63	18%	43%	51%
71	Assa Abloy	328,546	0.02	<0.01	13%	43%	75%
82	Ball Corp.	264,558	3.20	<0.01	16%	43%	83%
86	Emerson Electric	245,848	<0.01		14%	43%	62%
88	Graphic Packaging	241,527	7.89		26%	43%	79%
7	Becton Dickinson	5,365,983	0.16	0.01	13%	42%	39%
11	Berkshire Hathaway	2,466,409	2.23	0.42	14%	41%	18%
26	Eastman Chemical	1,719,778	4.41	1.76	20%	41%	65%
4	Indorama Ventures	6,868,453	1.24	0.10	15%	40%	94%
19	PPG Industries	2,050,532	0.63	1.96	16%	40%	61%
89	Tesla Inc.	239,371	0.30	0.07	11%	40%	96%
93	International Paper	231,441	33.01	<0.01	19%	40%	18%
99	Commercial Metals Co.	206,999	0.07		28%	40%	66%
58	Clayton Dubilier & Rice	459,685	0.42	<0.01	14%	39%	71%
66	KKR & Co.	358,081	0.06	0.01	18%	39%	64%
78	Stepan	279,955	0.29	1.38	9%	39%	88%
97	Leggett & Platt	207,195	0.08	<0.01	8%	38%	93%
73	Michelin	321,482	0.33		16%	37%	76%
3	BASF	11,219,461	4.40	4.48	18%	36%	42%
72	O-I Glass	324,181	0.02		14%	36%	45%
40	Nucor	967,412	0.61	0.01	17%	35%	30%
44	Ametek	885,282	0.18		11%	35%	94%
9	Saint-Gobain	3,231,990	0.80	0.19	10%	34%	96%
61	Century Aluminum	420,410	2.00		14%	33%	75%
10	Terumo	3,110,344	0.03		10%	32%	100%
47	Ingredion	781,554	0.49	<0.01	15%	32%	72%
90	Bayer	239,212	0.27	3.70	16%	31%	73%
100	General Motors	206,801	2.89	<0.01	14%	31%	52%
45	Rio Tinto	882,993	0.09		8%	30%	81%
75	Ryerson Holding Corp.	288,137	<0.01		11%	30%	75%
23	General Electric	1,872,970	0.21	<0.01	20%	27%	48%
43	Apollo Global Management	927,617	0.13		13%	27%	54%
12	Westlake Chemical	2,360,427	4.59	6.18	15%	26%	69%
51	Sasol	616,510	0.89	0.05	16%	25%	96%
79	Generac Holdings	279,830	0.01	0.07	11%	25%	100%
28	Lotte Chemical	1,623,200	1.28	0.19	15%	24%	100%
32	Covestro	1,265,717	0.06	1.63	15%	22%	91%
56	Middleby Corp.	506,575	<0.01		12%	20%	93%
74	Hitachi	292,865	0.48	<0.01	12%	18%	66%
13	Northrop Grumman	2,347,737	0.12	0.15	18%	16%	99%
63	Kingspan plc	403,522	0.05		10%	16%	100%
15	Element Solutions Inc.	2,169,628	0.18	<0.01	17%	15%	98%
64	International Flavors & Fragrances	399,504	0.50	1.82	19%	15%	99%
2	Kaiser Aluminum	18,136,121	0.35		14%	14%	100%
68	AGCO Corp.	340,975	0.03		14%	14%	28%
59	Allegheny Technologies	435,260	0.26	0.13	13%	13%	47%
65	American Electric Power	379,689	1.65		13%	10%	56%
80	Harley-Davidson	271,888	0.02	<0.01	14%	8%	99%
42	Baxter International	938,168	0.04	<0.01	11%	6%	100%

Explanatory notes (For details, see the technical notes).

This edition of the Toxic 100 Air Polluters 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 2021.

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 2021 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.11) 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 2021 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 2023.
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 Polluters. For more information on the data, see the technical notes.