Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2022 Report, Based on 2020 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
23	Lonza	1,020,204,397	<0.01	<0.01	34%	89%	100%
48	Saputo	254,283,554	0.10	2.71	51%	86%	69%
100	Veolia Group	27,664,397	<0.01	2.29	24%	84%	95%
87	KKR & Co.	50,701,970	<0.01	0.64	47%	83%	96%
63	Clean Harbors Inc.	136,431,525	0.01	0.04	61%	79%	98%
44	Exxon Mobil	283,394,911	2.35	0.01	51%	77%	27%
57	Evonik Industries	190,311,167	0.30	0.49	51%	77%	52%
80	Occidental Petroleum	65,013,073	0.13	0.15	57%	76%	63%
7	Clayton Dubilier & Rice	12,447,140,628	<0.01	0.03	61%	67%	66%
35	Formosa Plastics	496,913,402	0.01	0.01	50%	64%	85%
51	Phillips 66	249,389,802	5.62	0.21	32%	64%	52%
4	Dow Inc.	39,668,371,826	0.36	0.18	48%	63%	97%
17	ChampionX Corporation	2,264,731,428	0.05	0.01	48%	62%	100%
54	Valero Energy	223,871,085	4.27	0.20	36%	62%	60%
58	Coca-Cola Co.	181,551,179		0.26	47%	61%	100%
79	Cardinal Health	66,000,000		<0.01	35%	60%	100%
72	Michelin	103,465,367	<0.01	<0.01	44%	57%	98%
36	Republic Services	481,910,766	0.01	1.70	36%	56%	46%
15	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	2,899,970,992	0.01	0.06	42%	55%	100%
65	Graham Holdings	133,184,035	<0.01		18%	53%	86%
82	Roper Technologies	56,315,314		0.04	27%	53%	100%
25	Mitsui	892,914,408	<0.01	<0.01	35%	52%	100%
45	PTT Group	270,730,712	0.01	1.95	36%	52%	99%
39	Freeport-McMoRan	409,716,428	0.05	0.01	42%	51%	97%
46	Ashland Global Holdings	268,927,296	0.06	13.73	22%	50%	80%
71	Berkshire Hathaway	103,475,893	0.14	1.93	24%	48%	44%
83	Delta Air Lines	54,496,174	0.22	0.01	26%	47%	100%
84	Halliburton	52,247,128	<0.01	0.01	27%	47%	86%
11	Honeywell International	5,974,222,501	0.05	0.02	38%	46%	100%
18	WestRock	1,563,761,619	0.91	4.74	31%	44%	80%
8	Huntsman Corp.	12,439,304,302	<0.01	0.02	41%	42%	100%
52	DuPont de Nemours	232,495,041	2.39	14.96	49%	42%	74%
40	PBF Energy	390,493,407	7.69	0.36	30%	41%	91%
68	Graphic Packaging	115,515,623	0.43	0.08	47%	41%	64%
24	Eastman Chemical	1,001,872,077	1.98	3.99	32%	40%	98%
34	International Paper	610,213,141	3.21	0.02	39%	38%	24%
95	Textron	33,542,695	<0.01	0.02	37%	38%	43%
20	JBS	1,295,622,848	10.47	7.92	41%	37%	85%
29	Holcim Group	756,775,967	0.03	<0.01	31%	36%	100%
3	NextEra Energy	45,021,037,511	0.02	<0.01	36%	34%	100%
76	BMW	84,887,106		0.68	27%	34%	100%
92	3M Company	38,977,503	0.75	0.18	23%	34%	64%
16	Energy Capital Partners	2,398,952,499	<0.01	<0.01	24%	33%	94%
85	Abbott Laboratories	52,058,214		0.03	45%	33%	100%
43	Southern Company	290,072,401	0.06		35%	30%	45%
49	Alcoa	253,600,052	0.02	<0.01	10%	29%	99%
69	WH Group	111,795,907	10.98	1.49	21%	29%	84%
93	Deere	38,309,760	0.02	0.09	40%	29%	88%
21	Chemours	1,202,620,520	0.93	0.61	31%	28%	85%
97	Harsco	31,792,124	<0.01	0.04	30%	28%	57%
2	LyondellBasell Industries	60,823,822,110	0.27	4.02	14%	27%	97%
67	OGE Energy	119,693,118	0.01		48%	27%	100%
6	Celanese	16,847,820,281	0.07	8.84	14%	26%	100%
9	Canopus International	10,293,380,451	0.44	0.91	37%	26%	51%
26	DTE Energy	881,966,726	0.04	<0.01	23%	26%	99%
77	Barrick Gold	84,365,442	<0.01		51%	26%	100%
89	Cabot Corp.	41,702,111	<0.01		36%	26%	100%
90	Continental Grain	41,486,953	1.13	0.01	46%	26%	24%
19	Rio Tinto	1,455,203,633	0.01	<0.01	7%	25%	72%
41	Mitsubishi Chemical	329,646,223	<0.01	3.61	15%	25%	99%
33	Chevron	646,069,961	0.99	0.20	27%	24%	69%
32	Marathon Petroleum	689,999,735	0.75	0.40	21%	23%	45%
22	Koch Industries	1,174,982,314	5.70	1.66	36%	22%	16%
64	Cleveland-Cliffs	136,216,950	17.32	0.15	30%	22%	28%
74	Pfizer	101,376,247	<0.01	1.07	32%	21%	100%
73	Toray Industries	102,075,959	<0.01	<0.01	30%	20%	95%
81	PPG Industries	61,652,088	<0.01	0.40	28%	20%	83%
96	HF Sinclair Corporation	33,539,698	0.05	0.01	41%	20%	44%
50	NiSource	251,460,407	0.03		26%	18%	100%
94	Nestle	38,209,386	0.11	0.62	35%	18%	81%
78	Carlyle Group	73,199,098	0.01	0.27	16%	17%	28%
5	Cargill	25,038,754,640	3.04	0.44	26%	16%	99%
28	Ingredion	869,510,827		0.76	26%	16%	100%
53	FirstEnergy	228,335,170	0.02		36%	16%	60%
60	United States Steel	172,436,438	2.61	<0.01	39%	16%	80%
55	Paper Excellence	218,436,434	0.64		30%	15%	38%
61	Blackstone	153,313,239	0.03	<0.01	25%	15%	75%
66	Nucor	120,422,482	0.38	0.12	34%	15%	76%
47	Olin Corp.	259,844,691	0.01	0.06	36%	14%	100%
59	Compass Group	181,480,644		<0.01	29%	14%	100%
13	Boston Scientific Corp.	3,400,000,945		<0.01	24%	12%	100%
42	Archer Daniels Midland	321,718,570	0.03	1.86	33%	12%	61%
70	Covestro	108,561,216	0.31	<0.01	38%	12%	99%
1	Northrop Grumman	148,935,444,216	<0.01	0.20	35%	11%	100%
14	BASF	3,263,121,704	3.45	1.77	21%	11%	60%
86	Masco	50,788,704	<0.01	<0.01	24%	10%	60%
98	Post Holdings	30,609,417	0.22	0.02	17%	10%	100%
38	PPL Corp.	413,086,022	0.20		35%	9%	59%
27	American Electric Power	873,808,266	0.11		39%	8%	69%
30	Westlake Chemical	711,777,192	0.19	<0.01	20%	8%	94%
88	General Mills	46,382,998	<0.01	0.11	37%	6%	100%
37	Packaging Corporation of America	457,619,803	1.33		45%	5%	60%
56	Renco	211,083,255	0.01		40%	5%	93%
10	Duke Energy	6,603,750,310	0.16		7%	4%	94%
31	Vistra Energy	693,041,632	0.04		14%	4%	79%
99	NRG Energy	29,096,625	0.02		30%	4%	77%
12	Far Easten New Century Corp.	4,442,086,541	0.05		37%	2%	100%
75	AES Corp.	101,164,122	0.01		27%	1%	100%
62	Danone	145,468,043		2.64	0%	0%	94%
91	ConAgra Brands	40,226,796		0.49	0%	0%	82%

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 2020.

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, 2020; (2) toxicity weights and hazard calculation: US EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators, version 2.3.10. 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 list, the Fortune 500 list, the Fortune Global 500 list, the Russell 1000 list, or the S&P 500.  Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of mid 2022.  
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 2020 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.