PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Nucor

Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 98
Surface Water releases 2018 (lbs): 531,712
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2018 (lbs): 119,956
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2018: 24,487,080

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This company is rank 62 on the Toxic 100 Air list.
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Chemical	Surface water releases (lbs)	POTW transfers (lbs)	Toxic Hazard (quantity x toxicity)	Percent of total company hazard
Chromium compounds	735	9	13,857,582	56.59%
Lead compounds	441	12	8,152,956	33.29%
Copper compounds	1,089	14	1,653,615	6.75%
Nitrate compounds	507,501	119,207	394,826	1.61%
Manganese compounds	13,967	0	99,168	0.40%
Lead	2	2	78,768	0.32%
Nickel compounds	626	42	60,812	0.25%
Mercury compounds	6	0	57,684	0.24%
Chromium	0	0	35,035	0.14%
Cadmium compounds	15	0	30,440	0.12%
Zinc compounds	6,638	551	23,724	0.10%
Copper	12	0	18,240	0.07%
Glycol ethers	0	95	17,100	0.07%
Vanadium compounds	27	0	3,815	0.02%
Barium compounds	465	0	2,324	0.01%
Nickel	0	9	874	0.00%
Manganese	1	16	117	0.00%
Sodium nitrite	0	0	0	0.00%
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)	0	0	0	0.00%
Xylene (mixed isomers)	0	0	0	0.00%
Cobalt compounds	3	0	0	0.00%
Lithium carbonate	183	0	0	0.00%

Toxic hazard: Pounds of direct releases to surface water and pounds transferred to Publicly Operated Treatment Works (POTW's) reported in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory for the year 2018, weighted by toxicity of chemicals. Weights are from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators project. For details, see technical notes.

Quantity of toxic surface water releases and POTW transfers: Pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to surface water at each TRI facility or transferred off-site to a POTW, without weighting for toxicity or population.

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