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