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