PERI
Home

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

(Click on column headers to re-sort table: current sort is by Corporation Name.)
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.