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

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.