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