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