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

(Click on column headers to re-sort table: current sort is by Pounds Sent To POTWs.)
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.