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

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.