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

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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