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

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.