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
47	DuPont de Nemours	269,430,449	2.15	17.68	38%	43%	75%
69	Ashland Global Holdings	117,386,339	0.04	15.22	27%	47%	55%
4	Celanese	28,892,205,441	0.07	8.66	16%	30%	100%
51	JBS	230,742,759	8.78	5.87	43%	56%	32%
20	WestRock	1,418,051,727	0.95	5.54	28%	36%	76%
9	Eastman Chemical	3,931,110,749	1.41	5.35	43%	17%	94%
3	LyondellBasell	39,260,468,246	0.17	3.24	16%	31%	95%
59	Mitsubishi Group	166,701,401	<0.01	3.19	20%	25%	98%
57	Saputo	175,529,491	0.11	2.75	64%	85%	98%
65	Archer Daniels Midland	125,150,973	0.04	2.45	37%	6%	56%
10	BASF	2,859,840,185	5.24	2.13	25%	12%	53%
44	WH Group	292,997,251	8.09	2.06	20%	36%	64%
17	Berkshire Hathaway	1,832,737,906	0.17	2.04	27%	38%	92%
19	Koch Industries	1,424,784,128	6.16	1.99	36%	18%	13%
68	Intel	118,166,851		1.67	21%	37%	54%
41	Pfizer	343,093,342	<0.01	1.56	31%	20%	100%
35	Tyson Foods	422,885,678	18.60	1.19	17%	20%	96%
86	Howmet Aerospace	40,132,307	0.02	0.95	28%	34%	48%
5	Canopus International	12,380,029,294	0.33	0.83	45%	35%	64%
24	Ingredion	946,206,213		0.74	26%	16%	100%
99	Shin-Etsu Chemical	25,068,203	<0.01	0.74	32%	53%	78%
71	Sekisui Chemical	84,286,855		0.72	47%	79%	100%
74	PPG Industries	80,155,895	<0.01	0.70	31%	20%	85%
95	Ford Motor	29,377,528		0.68	14%	35%	58%
16	Chemours	1,836,708,431	1.03	0.59	34%	26%	89%
73	BMW	81,885,581		0.59	31%	33%	100%
88	Nestle	38,187,766	0.09	0.59	43%	49%	72%
43	Phillips 66	312,540,218	6.86	0.51	31%	64%	75%
46	PTT Group	276,555,240		0.43	29%	14%	100%
100	TTM Technologies	24,857,820	<0.01	0.43	17%	73%	22%
11	Cargill	2,687,920,789	2.50	0.42	26%	21%	92%
25	Marathon Petroleum	918,694,955	0.99	0.42	25%	21%	41%
81	Boeing	50,586,710	<0.01	0.41	39%	70%	38%
89	ConAgra Brands	34,779,883		0.40	0%	0%	100%
34	PBF Energy	439,908,086	6.69	0.37	31%	41%	89%
94	J.R. Simplot	29,869,525		0.37	31%	18%	98%
63	Evonik Industries	131,841,095	0.30	0.36	38%	42%	68%
62	Valero Energy	134,586,472	3.95	0.24	46%	60%	39%
75	Carlyle Group	68,387,510	0.01	0.23	20%	9%	29%
1	Northrop Grumman	150,093,525,218	<0.01	0.21	34%	10%	100%
96	Albemarle	28,507,222	<0.01	0.19	16%	31%	60%
82	Baker Hughes	48,874,903	<0.01	0.16	26%	49%	99%
2	Dow Inc.	41,732,499,631	1.36	0.13	35%	48%	98%
80	Occidental Petroleum	55,579,140	0.14	0.13	36%	65%	43%
61	Takeda Pharmaceutical	144,691,835		0.12	40%	83%	100%
21	Cleveland-Cliffs	1,238,869,246	22.11	0.09	35%	25%	85%
87	Deere	39,319,690	0.02	0.09	35%	24%	87%
8	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	3,936,322,205	0.01	0.08	36%	46%	100%
67	Graphic Packaging	121,823,479	0.48	0.08	38%	23%	68%
52	Clean Harbors Inc.	212,776,563	0.01	0.07	36%	65%	93%
77	General Mills	63,099,054	<0.01	0.07	42%	5%	94%
55	Olin Corp.	193,953,932	0.01	0.06	44%	14%	99%
31	Chevron	561,582,366	1.51	0.05	23%	27%	62%
42	Lonza	329,989,846	<0.01	0.04	31%	85%	100%
78	Roper Technologies	63,054,004		0.04	31%	47%	100%
7	Honeywell International	6,369,256,668	0.08	0.02	39%	47%	100%
32	International Paper	558,086,650	2.88	0.02	37%	32%	27%
13	Energy Capital Partners	2,531,273,104	<0.01	0.01	43%	30%	93%
38	Exxon Mobil	385,872,409	2.29	0.01	38%	78%	25%
45	Compass Group	280,605,131		0.01	21%	4%	100%
54	Toray Industries	200,275,344	<0.01	0.01	0%	0%	97%
79	Abbott Laboratories	62,227,800		0.01	52%	32%	100%
84	HollyFrontier	47,173,331	0.06	0.01	25%	20%	31%
85	Freeport-McMoRan	41,148,185	0.05	0.01	36%	40%	66%
6	Duke Energy	6,765,810,638	0.16		19%	8%	87%
12	Boston Scientific	2,580,001,087		<0.01	24%	10%	100%
14	Alfa S.A.B.	2,166,104,301	0.16	<0.01	25%	29%	82%
15	Far Easten New Century Corp.	1,966,969,554	0.02		43%	1%	100%
18	American Electric Power	1,450,819,085	0.13		41%	7%	69%
22	Rio Tinto	1,109,338,199	0.01	<0.01	8%	19%	71%
23	DTE Energy	991,448,016	0.06	<0.01	29%	30%	98%
26	Vistra Energy	861,167,163	0.08		18%	3%	77%
27	Renco	713,589,163	0.01		38%	5%	94%
28	LafargeHolcim	664,561,763	0.02	<0.01	33%	38%	100%
29	NextEra Energy	627,708,193	<0.01	<0.01	25%	21%	100%
30	AES Corp.	582,628,303	0.01		29%	2%	99%
33	Mitsui	474,482,142	<0.01	<0.01	40%	55%	100%
36	PPL Corp.	419,448,015	0.22		34%	7%	91%
37	Packaging Corporation of America	401,771,594	1.23		46%	18%	54%
39	Southern Company	371,666,196	0.06		36%	38%	43%
40	NiSource	364,539,913	0.04		25%	17%	100%
48	FirstEnergy	242,514,114	0.05		35%	14%	68%
49	Domtar Corp.	240,673,385	0.71		15%	16%	39%
50	Michelin	233,100,580	<0.01	<0.01	36%	43%	100%
53	Blackstone	202,790,325	0.09	<0.01	32%	21%	100%
56	WEC Energy Group	176,403,218	0.01		26%	7%	100%
58	Alcoa	170,585,638	0.02		10%	10%	99%
60	United States Steel	166,341,381	3.03	<0.01	40%	18%	71%
64	Formosa Plastics	128,712,882	0.01	<0.01	45%	65%	54%
66	Westlake Chemical	124,152,249	0.24	<0.01	21%	15%	38%
70	Covestro LLC	105,738,634	0.53	<0.01	42%	4%	98%
72	Cardinal Health	83,600,000		<0.01	41%	64%	100%
76	Barrick Gold	64,809,394	<0.01	<0.01	51%	26%	100%
83	Masco	47,833,129	<0.01	<0.01	23%	12%	51%
90	Cabot Corp.	34,241,283	<0.01		35%	24%	100%
91	NRG Energy	33,910,923	0.01		13%	57%	85%
92	Graham Holdings	32,630,974	<0.01		21%	49%	68%
93	Delta Air Lines	30,569,477	0.26	<0.01	45%	50%	100%
97	Flex-N-Gate	28,407,644	<0.01	<0.01	27%	6%	62%
98	Resolute Forest Products	27,109,497	0.27		25%	6%	68%

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.