Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2021 Report, Based on 2019 Data)
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57
Saputo
175,529,491
0.11
2.75
64%
85%
98%
79
Abbott Laboratories
62,227,800
0.01
52%
32%
100%
76
Barrick Gold
64,809,394
<0.01
<0.01
51%
26%
100%
71
Sekisui Chemical
84,286,855
0.72
47%
79%
100%
37
Packaging Corporation of America
401,771,594
1.23
46%
18%
54%
62
Valero Energy
134,586,472
3.95
0.24
46%
60%
39%
5
Canopus International
12,380,029,294
0.33
0.83
45%
35%
64%
64
Formosa Plastics
128,712,882
0.01
<0.01
45%
65%
54%
93
Delta Air Lines
30,569,477
0.26
<0.01
45%
50%
100%
55
Olin Corp.
193,953,932
0.01
0.06
44%
14%
99%
9
Eastman Chemical
3,931,110,749
1.41
5.35
43%
17%
94%
13
Energy Capital Partners
2,531,273,104
<0.01
0.01
43%
30%
93%
15
Far Easten New Century Corp.
1,966,969,554
0.02
43%
1%
100%
51
JBS
230,742,759
8.78
5.87
43%
56%
32%
88
Nestle
38,187,766
0.09
0.59
43%
49%
72%
70
Covestro LLC
105,738,634
0.53
<0.01
42%
4%
98%
77
General Mills
63,099,054
<0.01
0.07
42%
5%
94%
18
American Electric Power
1,450,819,085
0.13
41%
7%
69%
72
Cardinal Health
83,600,000
<0.01
41%
64%
100%
33
Mitsui
474,482,142
<0.01
<0.01
40%
55%
100%
60
United States Steel
166,341,381
3.03
<0.01
40%
18%
71%
61
Takeda Pharmaceutical
144,691,835
0.12
40%
83%
100%
7
Honeywell International
6,369,256,668
0.08
0.02
39%
47%
100%
81
Boeing
50,586,710
<0.01
0.41
39%
70%
38%
27
Renco
713,589,163
0.01
38%
5%
94%
38
Exxon Mobil
385,872,409
2.29
0.01
38%
78%
25%
47
DuPont de Nemours
269,430,449
2.15
17.68
38%
43%
75%
63
Evonik Industries
131,841,095
0.30
0.36
38%
42%
68%
67
Graphic Packaging
121,823,479
0.48
0.08
38%
23%
68%
32
International Paper
558,086,650
2.88
0.02
37%
32%
27%
65
Archer Daniels Midland
125,150,973
0.04
2.45
37%
6%
56%
8
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
3,936,322,205
0.01
0.08
36%
46%
100%
19
Koch Industries
1,424,784,128
6.16
1.99
36%
18%
13%
39
Southern Company
371,666,196
0.06
36%
38%
43%
50
Michelin
233,100,580
<0.01
<0.01
36%
43%
100%
52
Clean Harbors Inc.
212,776,563
0.01
0.07
36%
65%
93%
80
Occidental Petroleum
55,579,140
0.14
0.13
36%
65%
43%
85
Freeport-McMoRan
41,148,185
0.05
0.01
36%
40%
66%
2
Dow Inc.
41,732,499,631
1.36
0.13
35%
48%
98%
21
Cleveland-Cliffs
1,238,869,246
22.11
0.09
35%
25%
85%
48
FirstEnergy
242,514,114
0.05
35%
14%
68%
87
Deere
39,319,690
0.02
0.09
35%
24%
87%
90
Cabot Corp.
34,241,283
<0.01
35%
24%
100%
1
Northrop Grumman
150,093,525,218
<0.01
0.21
34%
10%
100%
16
Chemours
1,836,708,431
1.03
0.59
34%
26%
89%
36
PPL Corp.
419,448,015
0.22
34%
7%
91%
28
LafargeHolcim
664,561,763
0.02
<0.01
33%
38%
100%
53
Blackstone
202,790,325
0.09
<0.01
32%
21%
100%
99
Shin-Etsu Chemical
25,068,203
<0.01
0.74
32%
53%
78%
34
PBF Energy
439,908,086
6.69
0.37
31%
41%
89%
41
Pfizer
343,093,342
<0.01
1.56
31%
20%
100%
42
Lonza
329,989,846
<0.01
0.04
31%
85%
100%
43
Phillips 66
312,540,218
6.86
0.51
31%
64%
75%
73
BMW
81,885,581
0.59
31%
33%
100%
74
PPG Industries
80,155,895
<0.01
0.70
31%
20%
85%
78
Roper Technologies
63,054,004
0.04
31%
47%
100%
94
J.R. Simplot
29,869,525
0.37
31%
18%
98%
23
DTE Energy
991,448,016
0.06
<0.01
29%
30%
98%
30
AES Corp.
582,628,303
0.01
29%
2%
99%
46
PTT Group
276,555,240
0.43
29%
14%
100%
20
WestRock
1,418,051,727
0.95
5.54
28%
36%
76%
86
Howmet Aerospace
40,132,307
0.02
0.95
28%
34%
48%
17
Berkshire Hathaway
1,832,737,906
0.17
2.04
27%
38%
92%
69
Ashland Global Holdings
117,386,339
0.04
15.22
27%
47%
55%
97
Flex-N-Gate
28,407,644
<0.01
<0.01
27%
6%
62%
11
Cargill
2,687,920,789
2.50
0.42
26%
21%
92%
24
Ingredion
946,206,213
0.74
26%
16%
100%
56
WEC Energy Group
176,403,218
0.01
26%
7%
100%
82
Baker Hughes
48,874,903
<0.01
0.16
26%
49%
99%
10
BASF
2,859,840,185
5.24
2.13
25%
12%
53%
14
Alfa S.A.B.
2,166,104,301
0.16
<0.01
25%
29%
82%
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%
40
NiSource
364,539,913
0.04
25%
17%
100%
84
HollyFrontier
47,173,331
0.06
0.01
25%
20%
31%
98
Resolute Forest Products
27,109,497
0.27
25%
6%
68%
12
Boston Scientific
2,580,001,087
<0.01
24%
10%
100%
31
Chevron
561,582,366
1.51
0.05
23%
27%
62%
83
Masco
47,833,129
<0.01
<0.01
23%
12%
51%
45
Compass Group
280,605,131
0.01
21%
4%
100%
66
Westlake Chemical
124,152,249
0.24
<0.01
21%
15%
38%
68
Intel
118,166,851
1.67
21%
37%
54%
92
Graham Holdings
32,630,974
<0.01
21%
49%
68%
44
WH Group
292,997,251
8.09
2.06
20%
36%
64%
59
Mitsubishi Group
166,701,401
<0.01
3.19
20%
25%
98%
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%
26
Vistra Energy
861,167,163
0.08
18%
3%
77%
35
Tyson Foods
422,885,678
18.60
1.19
17%
20%
96%
100
TTM Technologies
24,857,820
<0.01
0.43
17%
73%
22%
3
LyondellBasell
39,260,468,246
0.17
3.24
16%
31%
95%
4
Celanese
28,892,205,441
0.07
8.66
16%
30%
100%
96
Albemarle
28,507,222
<0.01
0.19
16%
31%
60%
49
Domtar Corp.
240,673,385
0.71
15%
16%
39%
95
Ford Motor
29,377,528
0.68
14%
35%
58%
91
NRG Energy
33,910,923
0.01
13%
57%
85%
58
Alcoa
170,585,638
0.02
10%
10%
99%
22
Rio Tinto
1,109,338,199
0.01
<0.01
8%
19%
71%
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.
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