Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2021 Report, Based on 2019 Data)
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1
Northrop Grumman
150,093,525,218
<0.01
0.21
34%
10%
100%
4
Celanese
28,892,205,441
0.07
8.66
16%
30%
100%
7
Honeywell International
6,369,256,668
0.08
0.02
39%
47%
100%
8
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
3,936,322,205
0.01
0.08
36%
46%
100%
12
Boston Scientific
2,580,001,087
<0.01
24%
10%
100%
15
Far Easten New Century Corp.
1,966,969,554
0.02
43%
1%
100%
24
Ingredion
946,206,213
0.74
26%
16%
100%
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%
33
Mitsui
474,482,142
<0.01
<0.01
40%
55%
100%
40
NiSource
364,539,913
0.04
25%
17%
100%
41
Pfizer
343,093,342
<0.01
1.56
31%
20%
100%
42
Lonza
329,989,846
<0.01
0.04
31%
85%
100%
45
Compass Group
280,605,131
0.01
21%
4%
100%
46
PTT Group
276,555,240
0.43
29%
14%
100%
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%
61
Takeda Pharmaceutical
144,691,835
0.12
40%
83%
100%
71
Sekisui Chemical
84,286,855
0.72
47%
79%
100%
72
Cardinal Health
83,600,000
<0.01
41%
64%
100%
73
BMW
81,885,581
0.59
31%
33%
100%
76
Barrick Gold
64,809,394
<0.01
<0.01
51%
26%
100%
78
Roper Technologies
63,054,004
0.04
31%
47%
100%
79
Abbott Laboratories
62,227,800
0.01
52%
32%
100%
89
ConAgra Brands
34,779,883
0.40
0%
0%
100%
90
Cabot Corp.
34,241,283
<0.01
35%
24%
100%
93
Delta Air Lines
30,569,477
0.26
<0.01
45%
50%
100%
30
AES Corp.
582,628,303
0.01
29%
2%
99%
55
Olin Corp.
193,953,932
0.01
0.06
44%
14%
99%
58
Alcoa
170,585,638
0.02
10%
10%
99%
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%
23
DTE Energy
991,448,016
0.06
<0.01
29%
30%
98%
57
Saputo
175,529,491
0.11
2.75
64%
85%
98%
59
Mitsubishi Group
166,701,401
<0.01
3.19
20%
25%
98%
70
Covestro LLC
105,738,634
0.53
<0.01
42%
4%
98%
94
J.R. Simplot
29,869,525
0.37
31%
18%
98%
54
Toray Industries
200,275,344
<0.01
0.01
0%
0%
97%
35
Tyson Foods
422,885,678
18.60
1.19
17%
20%
96%
3
LyondellBasell
39,260,468,246
0.17
3.24
16%
31%
95%
9
Eastman Chemical
3,931,110,749
1.41
5.35
43%
17%
94%
27
Renco
713,589,163
0.01
38%
5%
94%
77
General Mills
63,099,054
<0.01
0.07
42%
5%
94%
13
Energy Capital Partners
2,531,273,104
<0.01
0.01
43%
30%
93%
52
Clean Harbors Inc.
212,776,563
0.01
0.07
36%
65%
93%
11
Cargill
2,687,920,789
2.50
0.42
26%
21%
92%
17
Berkshire Hathaway
1,832,737,906
0.17
2.04
27%
38%
92%
36
PPL Corp.
419,448,015
0.22
34%
7%
91%
16
Chemours
1,836,708,431
1.03
0.59
34%
26%
89%
34
PBF Energy
439,908,086
6.69
0.37
31%
41%
89%
6
Duke Energy
6,765,810,638
0.16
19%
8%
87%
87
Deere
39,319,690
0.02
0.09
35%
24%
87%
21
Cleveland-Cliffs
1,238,869,246
22.11
0.09
35%
25%
85%
74
PPG Industries
80,155,895
<0.01
0.70
31%
20%
85%
91
NRG Energy
33,910,923
0.01
13%
57%
85%
14
Alfa S.A.B.
2,166,104,301
0.16
<0.01
25%
29%
82%
99
Shin-Etsu Chemical
25,068,203
<0.01
0.74
32%
53%
78%
26
Vistra Energy
861,167,163
0.08
18%
3%
77%
20
WestRock
1,418,051,727
0.95
5.54
28%
36%
76%
43
Phillips 66
312,540,218
6.86
0.51
31%
64%
75%
47
DuPont de Nemours
269,430,449
2.15
17.68
38%
43%
75%
88
Nestle
38,187,766
0.09
0.59
43%
49%
72%
22
Rio Tinto
1,109,338,199
0.01
<0.01
8%
19%
71%
60
United States Steel
166,341,381
3.03
<0.01
40%
18%
71%
18
American Electric Power
1,450,819,085
0.13
41%
7%
69%
48
FirstEnergy
242,514,114
0.05
35%
14%
68%
63
Evonik Industries
131,841,095
0.30
0.36
38%
42%
68%
67
Graphic Packaging
121,823,479
0.48
0.08
38%
23%
68%
92
Graham Holdings
32,630,974
<0.01
21%
49%
68%
98
Resolute Forest Products
27,109,497
0.27
25%
6%
68%
85
Freeport-McMoRan
41,148,185
0.05
0.01
36%
40%
66%
5
Canopus International
12,380,029,294
0.33
0.83
45%
35%
64%
44
WH Group
292,997,251
8.09
2.06
20%
36%
64%
31
Chevron
561,582,366
1.51
0.05
23%
27%
62%
97
Flex-N-Gate
28,407,644
<0.01
<0.01
27%
6%
62%
96
Albemarle
28,507,222
<0.01
0.19
16%
31%
60%
95
Ford Motor
29,377,528
0.68
14%
35%
58%
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%
37
Packaging Corporation of America
401,771,594
1.23
46%
18%
54%
64
Formosa Plastics
128,712,882
0.01
<0.01
45%
65%
54%
68
Intel
118,166,851
1.67
21%
37%
54%
10
BASF
2,859,840,185
5.24
2.13
25%
12%
53%
83
Masco
47,833,129
<0.01
<0.01
23%
12%
51%
86
Howmet Aerospace
40,132,307
0.02
0.95
28%
34%
48%
39
Southern Company
371,666,196
0.06
36%
38%
43%
80
Occidental Petroleum
55,579,140
0.14
0.13
36%
65%
43%
25
Marathon Petroleum
918,694,955
0.99
0.42
25%
21%
41%
49
Domtar Corp.
240,673,385
0.71
15%
16%
39%
62
Valero Energy
134,586,472
3.95
0.24
46%
60%
39%
66
Westlake Chemical
124,152,249
0.24
<0.01
21%
15%
38%
81
Boeing
50,586,710
<0.01
0.41
39%
70%
38%
51
JBS
230,742,759
8.78
5.87
43%
56%
32%
84
HollyFrontier
47,173,331
0.06
0.01
25%
20%
31%
75
Carlyle Group
68,387,510
0.01
0.23
20%
9%
29%
32
International Paper
558,086,650
2.88
0.02
37%
32%
27%
38
Exxon Mobil
385,872,409
2.29
0.01
38%
78%
25%
100
TTM Technologies
24,857,820
<0.01
0.43
17%
73%
22%
19
Koch Industries
1,424,784,128
6.16
1.99
36%
18%
13%
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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