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Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2023 Report, Based on 2021 Data)

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

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.