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%
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%
4	Honeywell International	6,001,188,020	0.10	0.02	0.11	100%
5	Southern Company	3,086,597,686	0.09	<0.01	0.09	65%
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%
8	ArcelorMittal	2,394,706,905	0.24	0.08	0.24	70%
9	LyondellBasell	2,281,970,237	0.01	4.07	0.49	91%
10	BASF	1,932,669,534	4.02	2.28	4.12	48%
11	Duke Energy	1,638,193,615	0.18		0.18	47%
12	PPL Corp.	1,528,912,929	0.24		0.24	73%
13	Koch Industries	1,497,612,755	6.96	2.50	7.11	15%
14	Vistra Energy	1,261,556,477	0.10	<0.01	0.10	88%
15	Rio Tinto	1,249,838,846	0.01	<0.01	0.01	65%
16	American Electric Power	1,218,981,730	0.11		0.11	63%
17	Boston Scientific	1,072,420,611		<0.01	<0.01	100%
18	International Paper	1,010,523,084	2.53	0.03	2.53	20%
19	Celanese	985,059,625	0.08	5.91	0.54	99%
20	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal	848,507,268	<0.01	0.04	0.02	100%
21	United States Steel	807,627,200	3.08	0.01	3.08	56%
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%
24	Berkshire Hathaway	723,790,975	0.14	2.17	0.27	37%
25	Eastman Chemical	646,387,728	1.86	6.21	1.96	80%
26	AK Steel	631,369,592	16.49	0.03	16.49	61%
27	Pentair	605,237,007	<0.01	0.01	<0.01	100%
28	Packaging Corporation of America	579,473,045	0.90		0.90	73%
29	NISOURCE INC	572,390,188	0.06		0.06	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%
32	FirstEnergy	476,896,689	0.05		0.05	39%
33	Sumitomo Group	418,193,624	0.27	0.01	0.27	97%
34	Platform Specialty Products Corp.	355,719,048	<0.01	0.03	<0.01	99%
35	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	316,212,559	0.03	0.10	0.04	100%
36	Domtar	296,457,843	0.71		0.71	50%
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%
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%
41	General Electric	215,430,280	0.07	2.03	0.07	75%
42	Mitsui	214,044,293	<0.01	0.07	0.01	100%
43	Nucor	210,508,339	0.40	0.11	0.40	23%
44	Blackstone	193,642,214	0.01	<0.01	0.01	100%
45	HeidelbergCement	191,493,316	<0.01		<0.01	100%
46	Allegheny Technologies	160,931,505	0.20	1.83	0.20	48%
47	Alcoa	146,117,608	0.04		0.04	99%
48	Hitachi	145,001,078	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	91%
49	Deere	144,658,094	0.02	0.05	0.02	98%
50	Cargill	139,412,616	2.66	0.18	2.68	82%
51	Phillips 66	136,063,420	6.08	0.36	6.12	49%
52	Huntington Ingalls Industries	134,476,004	0.01	<0.01	0.01	90%
53	Renco	129,252,897	0.02		0.02	46%
54	Arconic	127,551,266	0.06	0.89	0.06	43%
55	Dominion Energy	123,371,058	0.09	<0.01	0.09	69%
56	Tyson Foods	122,589,666	16.38	1.42	16.45	62%
57	Graphic Packaging	117,178,302	0.39	0.07	0.40	76%
58	Total S.A.	115,341,946	0.03	<0.01	0.03	100%
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%
61	Occidental Petroleum	89,923,430	0.10	0.11	0.14	32%
62	Verso Corporation	80,568,118	3.31	3.98	3.62	49%
63	Graham Holdings	75,519,393	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	52%
64	Archer Daniels Midland	68,731,786	0.03	2.26	0.10	78%
65	NRG Energy	62,439,153	0.01		0.01	51%
66	Resolute Forest Products	58,596,568	0.40		0.40	51%
67	Newmont Mining	57,381,387	0.01	<0.01	0.01	100%
68	Macquarie	52,286,252	0.01		0.01	79%
69	Ingredion	51,345,986		1.77	0.29	55%
70	SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries)	50,554,998	0.46		0.46	92%
71	PBF Energy	46,941,591	4.56	0.19	4.60	47%
72	Textron	41,538,735	<0.01	0.02	<0.01	60%
73	Icahn Enterprises	40,679,282	0.19	0.08	0.20	93%
74	Steel Dynamics	38,004,741	<0.01	0.01	0.01	55%
75	Huntsman	36,701,987	0.08	0.34	0.22	76%
76	Commercial Metals	36,123,931	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	99%
77	Alliant Energy	35,517,708	0.01		0.01	98%
78	HollyFrontier	32,156,331	0.23	0.03	0.24	48%
79	Valero Energy	31,954,823	3.15	0.21	3.17	24%
80	Danaher	30,318,415		0.82	0.09	97%
81	Daimler	29,910,877	<0.01	0.05	<0.01	100%
82	Robert Bosch	29,317,446		0.02	<0.01	100%
83	Freeport-McMoRan	28,442,379	0.01	0.01	0.02	72%
84	Evergy Inc.	27,770,514	0.01		0.01	98%
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%
87	Vectren	25,793,870	<0.01		<0.01	59%
88	Masco	25,766,130	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	67%
89	Brunswick	25,230,829		<0.01	<0.01	100%
90	LCI Industries	24,973,315		<0.01	<0.01	100%
91	Triumph Group	24,042,459	<0.01	0.06	<0.01	79%
92	BP	23,570,236	1.02	<0.01	1.02	68%
93	Royal Dutch Shell	21,688,722	1.26	<0.01	1.26	81%
94	Pfizer	21,653,250	<0.01	1.05	0.12	100%
94	PTT Group	19,765,639		0.41	0.03	100%
95	Panasonic	19,119,135	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	100%
96	Procter & Gamble	18,787,863	<0.01	3.42	0.27	99%
97	Cabot	17,883,461	<0.01		<0.01	100%
98	Caterpillar	17,615,831	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	78%
99	Entergy	17,178,494	<0.01		<0.01	97%
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.