PERI: Toxic 100 Index

United States Steel

Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 48
Surface Water releases 2018 (lbs): 3,968,413
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2018 (lbs): 21,496
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2018: 232,242,500

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This company is rank 54 on the Toxic 100 Air list.
This company is rank 25 on the Greenhouse 100 list.

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Chemical	Surface water releases (lbs)	POTW transfers (lbs)	Toxic Hazard (quantity x toxicity)	Percent of total company hazard
Arsenic compounds	69	33	153,000,000	65.88%
Lead compounds	1,494	88	28,468,979	12.26%
Chromium compounds	1,259	31	28,210,500	12.15%
Chromium	60	0	7,100,000	3.06%
Molybdenum trioxide	12,000	0	4,560,000	1.96%
Nitrate compounds	3,879,340	0	2,443,983	1.05%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	10	0	1,782,000	0.77%
Copper compounds	1,023	66	1,633,500	0.70%
Cyanide compounds	7,642	0	1,528,400	0.66%
Antimony compounds	583	0	1,457,775	0.63%
Lead	67	1	1,214,100	0.52%
Copper	120	0	180,000	0.08%
Mercury compounds	9	2	105,700	0.05%
Benzo(g,h,i)perylene	5	0	105,400	0.05%
Manganese compounds	12,905	0	91,626	0.04%
Zinc compounds	16,335	782	56,486	0.02%
Benzene	1	0	55,000	0.02%
Nickel	496	2	45,318	0.02%
Pyridine	42	0	42,000	0.02%
Nickel compounds	351	36	35,234	0.02%
Manganese	4,521	18	32,223	0.01%
Cadmium compounds	12	0	24,000	0.01%
Vanadium compounds	140	0	19,600	0.01%
Barium compounds	3,726	0	18,630	0.01%
Selenium compounds	86	0	17,200	0.01%
Beryllium compounds	19	0	9,500	0.00%
Ethylbenzene	3	0	3,300	0.00%
Silver compounds	7	0	1,400	0.00%
Naphthalene	6	0	300	0.00%
Phenol	74	0	244	0.00%
Toluene	3	0	39	0.00%
Xylene (mixed isomers)	6	0	30	0.00%
Anthracene	5	0	17	0.00%
Styrene	3	0	15	0.00%
Thallium compounds	0	0	0	0.00%
Diethanolamine	0	0	0	0.00%
Methanol	0	0	0	0.00%
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds	0	0	0	0.00%
Hydrogen cyanide	0	0	0	0.00%
Acetonitrile	0	0	0	0.00%
Biphenyl	0	0	0	0.00%
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene	0	0	0	0.00%
Phenanthrene	5	0	0	0.00%
Lithium carbonate	0	0	0	0.00%
Sodium nitrite	0	0	0	0.00%
Ammonia	25,896	20,438	0	0.00%
Dibenzofuran	28	0	0	0.00%
Cresol (mixed isomers)	0	0	0	0.00%
Hydrogen sulfide	0	0	0	0.00%
Carbon disulfide	0	0	0	0.00%
Cobalt compounds	62	0	0	0.00%
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)	0	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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