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

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.