Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2021 Report, Based on 2019 Data)

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Toxic 100 Water Rank	Corporation	Toxic hazard (pounds released x toxicity)	Millions of pounds of toxic surface water releases	Millions of pounds discharged to public sewage treatment works	EJ: Near Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share	% of toxic hazard from a single facility
42	Lonza	329,989,846	<0.01	0.04	31%	85%	100%
57	Saputo	175,529,491	0.11	2.75	64%	85%	98%
61	Takeda Pharmaceutical	144,691,835		0.12	40%	83%	100%
71	Sekisui Chemical	84,286,855		0.72	47%	79%	100%
38	Exxon Mobil	385,872,409	2.29	0.01	38%	78%	25%
100	TTM Technologies	24,857,820	<0.01	0.43	17%	73%	22%
81	Boeing	50,586,710	<0.01	0.41	39%	70%	38%
52	Clean Harbors Inc.	212,776,563	0.01	0.07	36%	65%	93%
64	Formosa Plastics	128,712,882	0.01	<0.01	45%	65%	54%
80	Occidental Petroleum	55,579,140	0.14	0.13	36%	65%	43%
43	Phillips 66	312,540,218	6.86	0.51	31%	64%	75%
72	Cardinal Health	83,600,000		<0.01	41%	64%	100%
62	Valero Energy	134,586,472	3.95	0.24	46%	60%	39%
91	NRG Energy	33,910,923	0.01		13%	57%	85%
51	JBS	230,742,759	8.78	5.87	43%	56%	32%
33	Mitsui	474,482,142	<0.01	<0.01	40%	55%	100%
99	Shin-Etsu Chemical	25,068,203	<0.01	0.74	32%	53%	78%
93	Delta Air Lines	30,569,477	0.26	<0.01	45%	50%	100%
82	Baker Hughes	48,874,903	<0.01	0.16	26%	49%	99%
88	Nestle	38,187,766	0.09	0.59	43%	49%	72%
92	Graham Holdings	32,630,974	<0.01		21%	49%	68%
2	Dow Inc.	41,732,499,631	1.36	0.13	35%	48%	98%
7	Honeywell International	6,369,256,668	0.08	0.02	39%	47%	100%
69	Ashland Global Holdings	117,386,339	0.04	15.22	27%	47%	55%
78	Roper Technologies	63,054,004		0.04	31%	47%	100%
8	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	3,936,322,205	0.01	0.08	36%	46%	100%
47	DuPont de Nemours	269,430,449	2.15	17.68	38%	43%	75%
50	Michelin	233,100,580	<0.01	<0.01	36%	43%	100%
63	Evonik Industries	131,841,095	0.30	0.36	38%	42%	68%
34	PBF Energy	439,908,086	6.69	0.37	31%	41%	89%
85	Freeport-McMoRan	41,148,185	0.05	0.01	36%	40%	66%
17	Berkshire Hathaway	1,832,737,906	0.17	2.04	27%	38%	92%
28	LafargeHolcim	664,561,763	0.02	<0.01	33%	38%	100%
39	Southern Company	371,666,196	0.06		36%	38%	43%
68	Intel	118,166,851		1.67	21%	37%	54%
20	WestRock	1,418,051,727	0.95	5.54	28%	36%	76%
44	WH Group	292,997,251	8.09	2.06	20%	36%	64%
5	Canopus International	12,380,029,294	0.33	0.83	45%	35%	64%
95	Ford Motor	29,377,528		0.68	14%	35%	58%
86	Howmet Aerospace	40,132,307	0.02	0.95	28%	34%	48%
73	BMW	81,885,581		0.59	31%	33%	100%
32	International Paper	558,086,650	2.88	0.02	37%	32%	27%
79	Abbott Laboratories	62,227,800		0.01	52%	32%	100%
3	LyondellBasell	39,260,468,246	0.17	3.24	16%	31%	95%
96	Albemarle	28,507,222	<0.01	0.19	16%	31%	60%
4	Celanese	28,892,205,441	0.07	8.66	16%	30%	100%
13	Energy Capital Partners	2,531,273,104	<0.01	0.01	43%	30%	93%
23	DTE Energy	991,448,016	0.06	<0.01	29%	30%	98%
14	Alfa S.A.B.	2,166,104,301	0.16	<0.01	25%	29%	82%
31	Chevron	561,582,366	1.51	0.05	23%	27%	62%
16	Chemours	1,836,708,431	1.03	0.59	34%	26%	89%
76	Barrick Gold	64,809,394	<0.01	<0.01	51%	26%	100%
21	Cleveland-Cliffs	1,238,869,246	22.11	0.09	35%	25%	85%
59	Mitsubishi Group	166,701,401	<0.01	3.19	20%	25%	98%
87	Deere	39,319,690	0.02	0.09	35%	24%	87%
90	Cabot Corp.	34,241,283	<0.01		35%	24%	100%
67	Graphic Packaging	121,823,479	0.48	0.08	38%	23%	68%
11	Cargill	2,687,920,789	2.50	0.42	26%	21%	92%
25	Marathon Petroleum	918,694,955	0.99	0.42	25%	21%	41%
29	NextEra Energy	627,708,193	<0.01	<0.01	25%	21%	100%
53	Blackstone	202,790,325	0.09	<0.01	32%	21%	100%
35	Tyson Foods	422,885,678	18.60	1.19	17%	20%	96%
41	Pfizer	343,093,342	<0.01	1.56	31%	20%	100%
74	PPG Industries	80,155,895	<0.01	0.70	31%	20%	85%
84	HollyFrontier	47,173,331	0.06	0.01	25%	20%	31%
22	Rio Tinto	1,109,338,199	0.01	<0.01	8%	19%	71%
19	Koch Industries	1,424,784,128	6.16	1.99	36%	18%	13%
37	Packaging Corporation of America	401,771,594	1.23		46%	18%	54%
60	United States Steel	166,341,381	3.03	<0.01	40%	18%	71%
94	J.R. Simplot	29,869,525		0.37	31%	18%	98%
9	Eastman Chemical	3,931,110,749	1.41	5.35	43%	17%	94%
40	NiSource	364,539,913	0.04		25%	17%	100%
24	Ingredion	946,206,213		0.74	26%	16%	100%
49	Domtar Corp.	240,673,385	0.71		15%	16%	39%
66	Westlake Chemical	124,152,249	0.24	<0.01	21%	15%	38%
46	PTT Group	276,555,240		0.43	29%	14%	100%
48	FirstEnergy	242,514,114	0.05		35%	14%	68%
55	Olin Corp.	193,953,932	0.01	0.06	44%	14%	99%
10	BASF	2,859,840,185	5.24	2.13	25%	12%	53%
83	Masco	47,833,129	<0.01	<0.01	23%	12%	51%
1	Northrop Grumman	150,093,525,218	<0.01	0.21	34%	10%	100%
12	Boston Scientific	2,580,001,087		<0.01	24%	10%	100%
58	Alcoa	170,585,638	0.02		10%	10%	99%
75	Carlyle Group	68,387,510	0.01	0.23	20%	9%	29%
6	Duke Energy	6,765,810,638	0.16		19%	8%	87%
18	American Electric Power	1,450,819,085	0.13		41%	7%	69%
36	PPL Corp.	419,448,015	0.22		34%	7%	91%
56	WEC Energy Group	176,403,218	0.01		26%	7%	100%
65	Archer Daniels Midland	125,150,973	0.04	2.45	37%	6%	56%
97	Flex-N-Gate	28,407,644	<0.01	<0.01	27%	6%	62%
98	Resolute Forest Products	27,109,497	0.27		25%	6%	68%
27	Renco	713,589,163	0.01		38%	5%	94%
77	General Mills	63,099,054	<0.01	0.07	42%	5%	94%
45	Compass Group	280,605,131		0.01	21%	4%	100%
70	Covestro LLC	105,738,634	0.53	<0.01	42%	4%	98%
26	Vistra Energy	861,167,163	0.08		18%	3%	77%
30	AES Corp.	582,628,303	0.01		29%	2%	99%
15	Far Easten New Century Corp.	1,966,969,554	0.02		43%	1%	100%
54	Toray Industries	200,275,344	<0.01	0.01	0%	0%	97%
89	ConAgra Brands	34,779,883		0.40	0%	0%	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 2019.

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, 2019; (2) toxicity weights and hazard calculation: US EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators, version 2.3.9. 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 Global 2000 list, the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies 2020 ranking, the Fortune 500 list for 2021, the Fortune Global 500 for 2021, or the S&P 500 as of 9/24/2021.  Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2021.  
Source: CTIP.> Environmental Justice (EJ): Near Poor Share and Minority Share: Shares of the total population health hazard borne by people living below twice the poverty line or by people in minority racial/ethnic groups. In the U.S. population, 26 percent lived below twice the poverty line in 2019 and 40 percent are members of minority racial/ethnic groups.  
Sources: US EPA, US Census, and CTIP.

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.