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

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.