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