Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2020 Report, Based on 2018 Data)
73
3M Company 63,497,235
0.90
0.14
68%
75
Abbott Laboratories 57,348,000
0.01
100%
20
AES Corp. 886,350,623
0.01
99%
94
Albemarle 27,386,755
<0.01
0.16
64%
43
Alcoa 317,886,887
0.03
100%
53
Allegheny Technologies 163,936,143
0.33
1.56
94%
17
American Electric Power 1,407,159,825
0.13
71%
63
ArcelorMittal 126,007,129
0.24
0.07
55%
59
Archer Daniels Midland 134,448,142
0.04
2.48
54%
32
Ashland Inc. 489,865,919
0.04
16.81
89%
2
BASF 50,070,473,167
6.31
2.90
93%
49
Berkshire Hathaway 212,819,446
0.13
1.89
22%
57
Blackstone 135,208,882
0.02
<0.01
100%
74
BMW 57,518,078
0.45
100%
77
Boeing 51,859,232
<0.01
0.50
27%
18
Boston Scientific 1,100,001,010
<0.01
100%
100
BP 23,058,267
0.70
<0.01
45%
67
Cardinal Health 90,640,000
<0.01
100%
40
Cargill 332,835,825
1.17
0.22
31%
76
Carlyle Group 56,262,190
0.01
0.05
38%
5
Celanese 15,378,338,643
0.07
9.65
100%
86
CF Industries 34,879,405
4.21
91%
15
Chemours 1,477,702,713
0.94
0.70
83%
50
Chevron 193,014,834
2.23
<0.01
86%
71
Cleveland-Cliffs 72,628,244
18.06
0.03
36%
89
ConAgra Brands 31,550,244
0.40
100%
66
Covestro LLC 110,135,786
0.07
0.01
94%
84
Deere 41,587,054
0.02
0.10
84%
99
Delta Air Lines 23,882,097
0.27
0.01
100%
38
Dominion Energy 350,085,507
0.26
<0.01
58%
47
Domtar 242,562,275
0.69
41%
4
Dow Inc. 43,816,535,808
1.26
0.31
95%
11
DTE Energy 2,515,873,567
0.03
<0.01
99%
9
Duke Energy 3,947,768,197
0.52
72%
45
DuPont de Nemours 289,200,135
2.08
17.15
69%
6
Eastman Chemical 7,254,787,726
1.86
6.24
96%
90
Ecolab 31,444,425
0.05
0.06
97%
61
Evonik Industries 131,666,070
0.45
0.19
75%
35
Exxon Mobil 425,400,336
2.72
<0.01
35%
46
FirstEnergy 287,249,017
0.03
52%
93
Flex-N-Gate 27,716,585
<0.01
<0.01
57%
95
Ford Motor 27,228,026
0.66
53%
29
Formosa Plastics 572,058,856
0.01
0.01
86%
83
Freeport-McMoRan 43,038,298
0.02
0.01
63%
88
General Electric 31,597,539
0.06
2.13
36%
92
General Motors 29,342,252
<0.01
0.59
42%
10
Goodyear Tire & Rubber 2,945,666,277
0.02
0.07
100%
28
Graham Holdings 572,369,677
<0.01
<0.01
93%
64
Graphic Packaging 122,765,111
0.52
0.07
69%
54
Hexcel 163,189,726
<0.01
0.68
100%
78
HollyFrontier 51,531,816
0.22
0.02
34%
7
Honeywell International 5,604,932,649
0.07
0.03
100%
87
Howmet Aerospace 31,683,306
<0.01
0.90
61%
91
Huntington Ingalls Industries 30,412,595
0.01
<0.01
90%
30
Ingredion 540,244,896
0.78
56%
44
Intel 295,074,130
3.06
72%
25
International Paper 739,817,420
2.30
0.03
20%
26
JBS 634,113,356
10.69
5.96
61%
14
Koch Industries 1,572,075,014
6.36
2.28
11%
13
Lonza 1,885,429,319
<0.01
0.06
100%
3
LyondellBasell 44,938,147,127
0.17
4.25
95%
19
Marathon Petroleum 1,038,813,810
0.94
0.44
52%
81
Masco 43,826,144
<0.01
<0.01
54%
65
Michelin 111,785,577
<0.01
<0.01
100%
36
Mitsubishi Group 366,165,880
<0.01
0.36
100%
31
Mitsui 493,194,895
<0.01
<0.01
100%
85
Nestle 35,029,217
0.09
0.70
75%
72
Newmont Corp. 71,059,358
0.03
<0.01
100%
37
NiSource 351,968,143
0.05
100%
1
Northrop Grumman 160,894,720,178
<0.01
0.21
100%
96
NRG Energy 25,513,608
0.01
82%
98
Nucor 24,487,080
0.53
0.12
22%
8
Nutrien Ltd. 4,061,276,734
1.28
0.01
100%
80
Occidental Petroleum 46,996,263
0.14
0.14
27%
52
Olin 175,534,363
0.01
<0.01
100%
22
Packaging Corporation of America 803,858,070
1.00
75%
27
PBF Energy 597,358,358
6.23
0.33
95%
41
Petrobras 326,617,345
<0.01
0.05
100%
69
Pfizer 76,986,180
<0.01
1.31
100%
39
Phillips 66 339,644,425
5.13
0.43
84%
68
PPG Industries 85,964,917
<0.01
0.83
83%
24
PPL Corp. 755,352,275
0.22
64%
60
Renco 133,649,960
0.01
79%
82
Resolute Forest Products 43,760,718
0.39
42%
21
Rio Tinto 858,610,967
0.01
<0.01
70%
79
Roper Technologies 51,408,816
0.03
100%
51
Saputo 185,867,191
0.09
2.67
98%
12
Southern Company 2,270,063,928
0.07
<0.01
78%
42
Sumitomo Group 319,660,550
0.23
0.01
99%
62
Tenneco 128,300,683
<0.01
0.01
97%
56
Toray Industries 136,873,870
<0.01
0.01
95%
55
Total S.A. 147,754,312
0.04
<0.01
100%
48
United States Steel 232,242,500
3.97
0.02
58%
58
Valero Energy 134,799,182
3.91
0.22
49%
33
Verso Corporation 476,001,296
3.04
3.56
92%
23
Vistra Energy 776,677,408
0.08
80%
97
WEC Energy Group 25,281,282
0.01
99%
34
Westlake Chemical 438,085,276
0.27
<0.01
60%
16
WestRock 1,433,862,712
1.13
4.54
65%
70
WH Group 73,426,178
6.69
3.29
68%
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 transferred to publicly owned treatment works from large facilities in the US in 2018.
RSEI Hazard : Pounds released directly to surface water plus pounds transferred to POTWs multiplied by chemical-specific toxicity weights. Sources: (1) pounds released and transferred: US EPA's Toxics Release Inventory, 2018; (2) toxicity weights and hazard calculation: US EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators, version 2.3.8. 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.
Coverage : This table presents the RSEI companies that appear on the Forbes World's Largest Public Companies 2020 list, the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies 2019 ranking, the Fortune 500 list for 2020, the Fortune Global 500 for 2020, or the S&P 500 as of 8/22/2020. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2020.
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 .
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