PERI: Toxic 100 Index

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

(Click on column headers to re-sort table: current sort is by Pounds of Post-Treatment Releases.)

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

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.