PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Cleveland-Cliffs

Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 64
Surface Water releases 2020 (lbs): 17,317,447
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2020 (lbs): 151,866
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2020: 136,216,950
EJ: Near Poor Share: 30%
EJ: Minority Share: 22%

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Chemical	Surface water releases (lbs)	POTW transfers (lbs)	Toxic Hazard (quantity x toxicity)	Percent of total company hazard
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processi	3,225	27	48,777,000	35.81%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	31	131	29,071,800	21.34%
Lead compounds	571	114	12,339,001	9.06%
Diethanolamine	17,000	0	12,070,000	8.86%
Sodium nitrite	1,028,850	0	10,288,500	7.55%
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)	16,191,556	123,114	10,278,243	7.55%
Chromium	390	0	7,008,100	5.14%
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or brom	1,678	31	2,563,500	1.88%
Cyanide compounds	7,914	22	1,587,120	1.17%
Lead	44	0	794,862	0.58%
Hydrogen sulfide	125	0	225,000	0.17%
Benzene	1	3	220,000	0.16%
Molybdenum trioxide	526	0	199,880	0.15%
Nickel compounds	1,310	247	141,656	0.10%
Cadmium compounds	68	0	136,000	0.10%
Manganese compounds	18,214	441	132,449	0.10%
Mercury	0	13	128,300	0.09%
Phenol	4,042	19,354	77,206	0.06%
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene	3	0	60,000	0.04%
Vanadium compounds	274	0	38,360	0.03%
Mercury compounds	4	0	37,055	0.03%
Zinc compounds	5,454	499	19,645	0.01%
Nickel	176	0	16,051	0.01%
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))	712	0	3,560	0.00%
Manganese	357	17	2,648	0.00%
Chlorine	86	0	860	0.00%
Naphthalene	0	3	150	0.00%
Anthracene	1	0	3	0.00%
Phenanthrene	2	0	0	0.00%
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia i	34,834	7,850	0	0.00%

For explanations of most columns above, including the EJ Shares, see the technical notes.

Toxic hazard: Pounds of direct releases to surface water and pounds transferred to Publicly Operated Treatment Works (POTW's) reported in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory for the year 2020, weighted by toxicity of chemicals. Weights are from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators project. For details, see technical notes.

Quantity of toxic surface water releases and POTW transfers: Pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to surface water at each TRI facility or transferred off-site to a POTW, without weighting for toxicity or population.

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