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 Released to Surface Water.)

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%
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%
1	DowDuPont	63,470,403,546	3.02	17.10	4.49	97%
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%
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%
23	Chemours	763,094,678	1.08	0.64	1.27	46%
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%
70	SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries)	50,554,998	0.46		0.46	92%
43	Nucor	210,508,339	0.40	0.11	0.40	23%
66	Resolute Forest Products	58,596,568	0.40		0.40	51%
57	Graphic Packaging	117,178,302	0.39	0.07	0.40	76%
33	Sumitomo Group	418,193,624	0.27	0.01	0.27	97%
37	Westlake Chemical	272,571,752	0.27	<0.01	0.27	45%
12	PPL Corp.	1,528,912,929	0.24		0.24	73%
8	ArcelorMittal	2,394,706,905	0.24	0.08	0.24	70%
78	HollyFrontier	32,156,331	0.23	0.03	0.24	48%
46	Allegheny Technologies	160,931,505	0.20	1.83	0.20	48%
73	Icahn Enterprises	40,679,282	0.19	0.08	0.20	93%
11	Duke Energy	1,638,193,615	0.18		0.18	47%
24	Berkshire Hathaway	723,790,975	0.14	2.17	0.27	37%
16	American Electric Power	1,218,981,730	0.11		0.11	63%
61	Occidental Petroleum	89,923,430	0.10	0.11	0.14	32%
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%
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%
75	Huntsman	36,701,987	0.08	0.34	0.22	76%
19	Celanese	985,059,625	0.08	5.91	0.54	99%
41	General Electric	215,430,280	0.07	2.03	0.07	75%
54	Arconic	127,551,266	0.06	0.89	0.06	43%
29	NISOURCE INC	572,390,188	0.06		0.06	100%
32	FirstEnergy	476,896,689	0.05		0.05	39%
47	Alcoa	146,117,608	0.04		0.04	99%
6	DTE Energy	3,029,107,094	0.04	<0.01	0.04	96%
58	Total S.A.	115,341,946	0.03	<0.01	0.03	100%
35	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	316,212,559	0.03	0.10	0.04	100%
64	Archer Daniels Midland	68,731,786	0.03	2.26	0.10	78%
7	AES Corp.	2,967,019,347	0.03		0.03	59%
49	Deere	144,658,094	0.02	0.05	0.02	98%
53	Renco	129,252,897	0.02		0.02	46%
67	Newmont Mining	57,381,387	0.01	<0.01	0.01	100%
68	Macquarie	52,286,252	0.01		0.01	79%
65	NRG Energy	62,439,153	0.01		0.01	51%
15	Rio Tinto	1,249,838,846	0.01	<0.01	0.01	65%
77	Alliant Energy	35,517,708	0.01		0.01	98%
84	Evergy Inc.	27,770,514	0.01		0.01	98%
83	Freeport-McMoRan	28,442,379	0.01	0.01	0.02	72%
44	Blackstone	193,642,214	0.01	<0.01	0.01	100%
9	LyondellBasell	2,281,970,237	0.01	4.07	0.49	91%
38	Olin	272,454,663	0.01	<0.01	0.01	87%
52	Huntington Ingalls Industries	134,476,004	0.01	<0.01	0.01	90%
100	Snap-on	16,033,523		<0.01	<0.01	59%
94	PTT Group	19,765,639		0.41	0.03	100%
85	Carlyle Group	26,824,796	<0.01	0.02	<0.01	35%
86	Albemarle	26,795,246	<0.01	0.14	0.04	65%
94	Pfizer	21,653,250	<0.01	1.05	0.12	100%
2	Northrop Grumman	37,651,979,847	<0.01	0.21	0.02	100%
87	Vectren	25,793,870	<0.01		<0.01	59%
96	Procter & Gamble	18,787,863	<0.01	3.42	0.27	99%
88	Masco	25,766,130	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	67%
99	Entergy	17,178,494	<0.01		<0.01	97%
89	Brunswick	25,230,829		<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%
97	Cabot	17,883,461	<0.01		<0.01	100%
91	Triumph Group	24,042,459	<0.01	0.06	<0.01	79%
90	LCI Industries	24,973,315		<0.01	<0.01	100%
82	Robert Bosch	29,317,446		0.02	<0.01	100%
81	Daimler	29,910,877	<0.01	0.05	<0.01	100%
27	Pentair	605,237,007	<0.01	0.01	<0.01	100%
30	Formosa Plastics	539,401,344	<0.01	0.01	0.01	75%
31	Compass Group	490,468,826		0.01	<0.01	100%
34	Platform Specialty Products Corp.	355,719,048	<0.01	0.03	<0.01	99%
17	Boston Scientific	1,072,420,611		<0.01	<0.01	100%
42	Mitsui	214,044,293	<0.01	0.07	0.01	100%
45	HeidelbergCement	191,493,316	<0.01		<0.01	100%
48	Hitachi	145,001,078	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	91%
59	Mitsubishi Group	104,724,364	<0.01	0.38	0.01	100%
60	Goldman Sachs	90,192,408	<0.01	0.49	0.05	100%
63	Graham Holdings	75,519,393	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	52%
69	Ingredion	51,345,986		1.77	0.29	55%
72	Textron	41,538,735	<0.01	0.02	<0.01	60%
74	Steel Dynamics	38,004,741	<0.01	0.01	0.01	55%
76	Commercial Metals	36,123,931	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	99%
3	Parker-Hannifin	22,284,466,197	<0.01	0.26	0.05	100%
80	Danaher	30,318,415		0.82	0.09	97%
20	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal	848,507,268	<0.01	0.04	0.02	100%

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.