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

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.