PERI: Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index

Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2024 Report, Based on 2022 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
2	Greenbrier Companies	18,417,062	0.18	<0.01	11%	31%	100%
4	Kaiser Aluminum	15,741,494	0.28		13%	16%	100%
6	Garmin	6,947,660	0.06		12%	86%	100%
9	Edwards Lifesciences	5,405,285	<0.01	0.01	45%	97%	100%
22	Terumo	2,190,748	0.06		9%	33%	100%
30	Air Products & Chemicals	1,357,769	0.27	<0.01	11%	38%	100%
32	Griffon Corp.	1,211,789	0.04	0.03	16%	74%	100%
39	Mitsui	1,003,671	0.10	0.10	16%	70%	100%
49	Akzo Nobel	676,592	0.09	0.04	17%	66%	100%
57	Kingspan plc	578,957	0.03	<0.01	10%	19%	100%
65	Lotte Chemical	465,115	0.05	<0.01	14%	25%	100%
69	Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)	438,869	0.28		19%	78%	100%
83	Spirit AeroSystems	255,053	0.58		20%	47%	100%
87	Bio-Rad Laboratories	240,154	0.01	0.40	11%	64%	100%
1	Standard Industries Inc.	19,819,724	0.96	1.38	17%	74%	99%
14	Celanese	2,902,196	0.86	8.32	15%	66%	99%
67	Ecolab	444,069	0.01	0.40	14%	81%	99%
74	International Flavors & Fragrances	357,349	0.61	2.07	18%	17%	99%
44	Siemens Energy	851,495	<0.01		12%	47%	98%
55	Leggett & Platt	588,797	0.08	0.01	7%	39%	98%
59	Rolls-Royce	538,887	0.01		29%	65%	98%
82	Targa Resources	255,117	0.70		20%	88%	98%
100	Alfa S.A.B.	187,853	0.72	0.01	18%	46%	98%
5	Tesla Inc.	6,954,555	0.28	0.18	10%	42%	97%
15	Freeport-McMoRan	2,873,997	3.55	<0.01	16%	65%	97%
79	Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (Wabtec)	263,590	0.32		19%	41%	95%
88	McWane	238,986	0.04	<0.01	24%	23%	95%
7	Carpenter Technology	5,587,044	0.04		20%	58%	93%
10	LyondellBasell Industries	5,019,237	5.68	3.23	17%	75%	93%
75	Sasol	314,593	0.84	0.06	15%	25%	93%
42	Covestro	880,866	0.06	2.90	12%	24%	92%
51	Cenovus Energy	660,237	0.53	<0.01	21%	35%	92%
21	Rio Tinto	2,208,082	0.30	<0.01	8%	33%	91%
66	Zimmer Biomet	453,787	0.01		14%	57%	91%
3	Huntsman Corp.	17,664,686	0.78	6.70	11%	37%	90%
33	Carlyle Group	1,207,037	0.42	0.20	17%	80%	90%
43	Snap-on	853,482	0.01		19%	17%	88%
80	Medtronic	261,998	0.02	0.06	15%	50%	88%
70	Assa Abloy	432,533	0.02	<0.01	12%	45%	86%
84	BP	252,781	0.72	0.01	18%	63%	83%
94	Huntington Ingalls Industries	212,848	0.19	0.08	19%	63%	83%
48	Clayton Dubilier & Rice	764,712	0.25	<0.01	14%	38%	82%
85	Graphic Packaging	250,675	6.94		26%	48%	82%
41	PBF Energy	885,697	1.63	<0.01	13%	73%	81%
25	Pritzker Organization	1,728,903	0.03		28%	67%	79%
62	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	510,693	1.30	0.08	23%	80%	79%
93	Henkel	215,352	0.05	0.34	20%	51%	79%
76	Hitachi	300,892	0.46	<0.01	11%	20%	78%
98	Honeywell International	200,642	1.12	0.04	26%	24%	76%
24	Ryerson Holding Corporation	1,749,530	<0.01		15%	69%	74%
23	Ashland Global Holdings	1,838,184	0.98	0.04	20%	57%	73%
54	Indorama Ventures	594,476	0.83	<0.01	14%	60%	73%
19	Eastman Chemical	2,407,690	4.74	0.42	18%	45%	71%
45	Koch Industries	811,542	29.19	1.82	19%	56%	69%
71	Formosa Plastics	396,900	1.61	16.84	22%	71%	68%
77	Baker Hughes	294,903	0.01		13%	59%	68%
99	Commercial Metals Co.	199,400	0.07		22%	42%	68%
58	ATI Inc.	561,616	0.59	0.01	14%	15%	66%
89	Michelin	238,744	0.37		15%	38%	66%
97	A.O. Smith Corp.	204,545	0.07	0.01	12%	23%	66%
47	Linde	772,773	0.45	<0.01	15%	49%	63%
64	American Electric Power	466,961	1.33		14%	10%	63%
72	Johnson & Johnson	363,867	0.03	0.01	13%	48%	63%
26	Evonik Industries	1,681,226	0.32	0.55	18%	47%	61%
96	Olin Corp.	207,678	0.31	3.51	15%	67%	60%
29	NOV Inc.	1,482,627	1.72	<0.01	14%	60%	59%
35	Ametek	1,143,673	0.20		11%	40%	58%
78	United States Steel	267,057	1.73	4.53	20%	52%	58%
16	PPG Industries	2,847,952	0.81	3.34	16%	38%	57%
81	Emerson Electric	259,680	0.01		12%	45%	56%
63	O-I Glass	468,681	0.02		14%	42%	54%
13	Albemarle	3,446,880	0.47	0.01	17%	72%	53%
27	STERIS	1,532,448	<0.01	<0.01	10%	62%	53%
90	RTX Corporation	237,092	0.05	0.04	12%	42%	52%
28	O'Neal Industries	1,526,886	0.02		24%	59%	51%
86	Saint-Gobain	241,687	0.71	0.03	12%	38%	51%
91	Gerdau	232,925	0.10	<0.01	13%	48%	51%
11	BASF	4,990,192	4.90	4.56	15%	40%	48%
68	Ingredion	439,888	0.47		15%	45%	47%
52	Solvay	657,468	0.74	1.82	15%	48%	46%
17	Exxon Mobil	2,692,144	9.20	0.77	18%	68%	44%
34	Howmet Aerospace	1,145,886	0.06	0.01	18%	53%	42%
40	Chevron	961,237	3.14	0.06	14%	64%	42%
61	KKR & Co.	521,241	0.06	0.01	14%	46%	42%
8	Becton Dickinson	5,490,687	0.11	0.01	10%	45%	41%
73	Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)	359,146	2.86	2.45	17%	50%	41%
36	General Electric	1,093,164	0.21	<0.01	13%	37%	39%
12	Dow Inc.	4,714,688	5.94	13.28	17%	51%	37%
50	Apollo Global Management	674,649	0.55	0.01	12%	25%	37%
31	Westlake Chemical	1,351,589	3.66	2.12	16%	31%	34%
46	Phillips 66	803,565	4.68	0.08	15%	61%	33%
60	Valero Energy	526,447	3.61	0.11	18%	71%	33%
37	Marathon Petroleum	1,061,905	5.08	0.06	15%	50%	31%
20	Shell PLC	2,353,779	2.64	0.01	16%	53%	30%
38	Occidental Petroleum	1,003,902	0.88	2.55	18%	72%	30%
92	Owens Corning	218,804	1.16	<0.01	15%	47%	27%
18	Berkshire Hathaway	2,664,227	2.11	0.39	14%	32%	26%
95	International Paper	207,704	31.50	<0.01	17%	41%	21%
53	Nucor	610,547	0.63	<0.01	15%	38%	18%
56	Cleveland-Cliffs	584,089	0.83	0.16	21%	43%	17%

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 2022.

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 2022 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.12) 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 2022 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, or 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 2024.
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.