PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2019 Report, Based on 2017 Data)

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Toxic 100 Water Rank	Corporation	Toxic hazard (pounds released x toxicity)	Millions of pounds of toxic surface water releases	Millions of pounds discharged to public sewage treatment works	Millions of pounds of toxic post-treatment releases	% of toxic hazard from a single facility
7	AES Corp.	2,967,019,347	0.03		0.03	59%
26	AK Steel	631,369,592	16.49	0.03	16.49	61%
86	Albemarle	26,795,246	<0.01	0.14	0.04	65%
47	Alcoa	146,117,608	0.04		0.04	99%
46	Allegheny Technologies	160,931,505	0.20	1.83	0.20	48%
77	Alliant Energy	35,517,708	0.01		0.01	98%
16	American Electric Power	1,218,981,730	0.11		0.11	63%
8	ArcelorMittal	2,394,706,905	0.24	0.08	0.24	70%
64	Archer Daniels Midland	68,731,786	0.03	2.26	0.10	78%
54	Arconic	127,551,266	0.06	0.89	0.06	43%
10	BASF	1,932,669,534	4.02	2.28	4.12	48%
24	Berkshire Hathaway	723,790,975	0.14	2.17	0.27	37%
44	Blackstone	193,642,214	0.01	<0.01	0.01	100%
17	Boston Scientific	1,072,420,611		<0.01	<0.01	100%
92	BP	23,570,236	1.02	<0.01	1.02	68%
89	Brunswick	25,230,829		<0.01	<0.01	100%
97	Cabot	17,883,461	<0.01		<0.01	100%
50	Cargill	139,412,616	2.66	0.18	2.68	82%
85	Carlyle Group	26,824,796	<0.01	0.02	<0.01	35%
98	Caterpillar	17,615,831	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	78%
19	Celanese	985,059,625	0.08	5.91	0.54	99%
23	Chemours	763,094,678	1.08	0.64	1.27	46%
39	Chevron	231,699,527	1.24	0.01	1.24	78%
76	Commercial Metals	36,123,931	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	99%
31	Compass Group	490,468,826		0.01	<0.01	100%
81	Daimler	29,910,877	<0.01	0.05	<0.01	100%
80	Danaher	30,318,415		0.82	0.09	97%
49	Deere	144,658,094	0.02	0.05	0.02	98%
55	Dominion Energy	123,371,058	0.09	<0.01	0.09	69%
36	Domtar	296,457,843	0.71		0.71	50%
1	DowDuPont	63,470,403,546	3.02	17.10	4.49	97%
6	DTE Energy	3,029,107,094	0.04	<0.01	0.04	96%
11	Duke Energy	1,638,193,615	0.18		0.18	47%
25	Eastman Chemical	646,387,728	1.86	6.21	1.96	80%
99	Entergy	17,178,494	<0.01		<0.01	97%
84	Evergy Inc.	27,770,514	0.01		0.01	98%
22	Exxon Mobil	788,698,647	1.86	<0.01	1.86	39%
32	FirstEnergy	476,896,689	0.05		0.05	39%
30	Formosa Plastics	539,401,344	<0.01	0.01	0.01	75%
83	Freeport-McMoRan	28,442,379	0.01	0.01	0.02	72%
41	General Electric	215,430,280	0.07	2.03	0.07	75%
60	Goldman Sachs	90,192,408	<0.01	0.49	0.05	100%
35	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	316,212,559	0.03	0.10	0.04	100%
63	Graham Holdings	75,519,393	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	52%
57	Graphic Packaging	117,178,302	0.39	0.07	0.40	76%
45	HeidelbergCement	191,493,316	<0.01		<0.01	100%
48	Hitachi	145,001,078	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	91%
78	HollyFrontier	32,156,331	0.23	0.03	0.24	48%
4	Honeywell International	6,001,188,020	0.10	0.02	0.11	100%
52	Huntington Ingalls Industries	134,476,004	0.01	<0.01	0.01	90%
75	Huntsman	36,701,987	0.08	0.34	0.22	76%
73	Icahn Enterprises	40,679,282	0.19	0.08	0.20	93%
69	Ingredion	51,345,986		1.77	0.29	55%
18	International Paper	1,010,523,084	2.53	0.03	2.53	20%
13	Koch Industries	1,497,612,755	6.96	2.50	7.11	15%
90	LCI Industries	24,973,315		<0.01	<0.01	100%
9	LyondellBasell	2,281,970,237	0.01	4.07	0.49	91%
68	Macquarie	52,286,252	0.01		0.01	79%
40	Marathon Petroleum	224,510,501	1.04	0.48	1.08	47%
88	Masco	25,766,130	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	67%
59	Mitsubishi Group	104,724,364	<0.01	0.38	0.01	100%
42	Mitsui	214,044,293	<0.01	0.07	0.01	100%
67	Newmont Mining	57,381,387	0.01	<0.01	0.01	100%
20	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal	848,507,268	<0.01	0.04	0.02	100%
29	NISOURCE INC	572,390,188	0.06		0.06	100%
2	Northrop Grumman	37,651,979,847	<0.01	0.21	0.02	100%
65	NRG Energy	62,439,153	0.01		0.01	51%
43	Nucor	210,508,339	0.40	0.11	0.40	23%
61	Occidental Petroleum	89,923,430	0.10	0.11	0.14	32%
38	Olin	272,454,663	0.01	<0.01	0.01	87%
28	Packaging Corporation of America	579,473,045	0.90		0.90	73%
95	Panasonic	19,119,135	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	100%
3	Parker-Hannifin	22,284,466,197	<0.01	0.26	0.05	100%
71	PBF Energy	46,941,591	4.56	0.19	4.60	47%
27	Pentair	605,237,007	<0.01	0.01	<0.01	100%
94	Pfizer	21,653,250	<0.01	1.05	0.12	100%
51	Phillips 66	136,063,420	6.08	0.36	6.12	49%
34	Platform Specialty Products Corp.	355,719,048	<0.01	0.03	<0.01	99%
12	PPL Corp.	1,528,912,929	0.24		0.24	73%
96	Procter & Gamble	18,787,863	<0.01	3.42	0.27	99%
94	PTT Group	19,765,639		0.41	0.03	100%
53	Renco	129,252,897	0.02		0.02	46%
66	Resolute Forest Products	58,596,568	0.40		0.40	51%
15	Rio Tinto	1,249,838,846	0.01	<0.01	0.01	65%
82	Robert Bosch	29,317,446		0.02	<0.01	100%
93	Royal Dutch Shell	21,688,722	1.26	<0.01	1.26	81%
70	SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries)	50,554,998	0.46		0.46	92%
100	Snap-on	16,033,523		<0.01	<0.01	59%
5	Southern Company	3,086,597,686	0.09	<0.01	0.09	65%
74	Steel Dynamics	38,004,741	<0.01	0.01	0.01	55%
33	Sumitomo Group	418,193,624	0.27	0.01	0.27	97%
72	Textron	41,538,735	<0.01	0.02	<0.01	60%
58	Total S.A.	115,341,946	0.03	<0.01	0.03	100%
91	Triumph Group	24,042,459	<0.01	0.06	<0.01	79%
56	Tyson Foods	122,589,666	16.38	1.42	16.45	62%
21	United States Steel	807,627,200	3.08	0.01	3.08	56%
79	Valero Energy	31,954,823	3.15	0.21	3.17	24%
87	Vectren	25,793,870	<0.01		<0.01	59%
62	Verso Corporation	80,568,118	3.31	3.98	3.62	49%
14	Vistra Energy	1,261,556,477	0.10	<0.01	0.10	88%
37	Westlake Chemical	272,571,752	0.27	<0.01	0.27	45%

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

This edition of the Toxic 100 Water ranks companies by comparative chronic human health hazard from water pollutants directly released or passed through publicly owned treatment works from large facilities in the US in 2017.

RSEI Hazard: Pounds released directly to surface water plus estimated pounds released post-treatment multiplied by chemical-specific toxicity weights. Sources: (1) pounds released and transferred: US EPA's Toxics Release Inventory, 2017; (2) toxicity weights and post-treatment release estimate: US EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators, version 2.3.7. For details, see Technical Notes.

Toxics released directly to surface water or transferred to sewage treatment: Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to water on-site at each TRI facility or transferred off-site to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) for sewage treatment, without weighting for toxicity. Source: U.S. EPA.

Toxics released to surface water: Millions of pounds of toxic chemical released directly to water on-site plus estimated post-treatment release to surface water from toxic chemicals transferred to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) for sewage treatment (POTWS do not have the equipment necessary to remove all toxics from the waste stream). Source: U.S. EPA.

Coverage: This table presents the RSEI Hazard score companies that appear on the Forbes World's Largest Public Companies list (2018, first 500 companies only), the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies list (2018 ranking), the Fortune 500 list (FY 2017-2018), the Fortune Global 500 (FY 2017-2018), or the S&P 500 as of 2/1/2019. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2018.
Source: CTIP.

The links from each parent name lead to an application that gives detailed facility and sector information about the company. You can also search for companies not on the Toxic 100 Water. For more information on the data, see the technical notes.