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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.

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.