PERI: Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index

Nucor

Rank in Toxic 100 Water Polluters: 70
Surface Water releases 2021 (lbs): 427,604
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2021 (lbs): 115,175
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2021: 78,793,471
EJ: Near Poor Share: 31%
EJ: Minority Share: 23%

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This company is rank 40 on the Toxic 100 Air Polluters list.
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Chemicals displayed below: (display facilities) (display chemicals at facilities)
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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 processing residue (COPR). COPR is the solid waste remaining after aqueous extraction of oxidized chromite ore that has been combined with soda ash and kiln roasted at approximately 2,000 F.)	634	376	66,382,211	84.25%
Lead compounds	449	12	8,294,015	10.53%
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.)	916	71	1,480,395	1.88%
Antimony compounds	372	0	930,000	1.18%
Lead	19	3	392,262	0.50%
Chromium	5	13	373,051	0.47%
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)	399,880	101,896	316,119	0.40%
Mercury compounds	19	0	193,335	0.25%
Cadmium compounds	81	0	162,580	0.21%
Manganese compounds	15,417	1	109,465	0.14%
Nickel compounds	683	99	71,146	0.09%
Vanadium compounds	345	0	48,337	0.06%
Zinc compounds	7,567	716	27,334	0.03%
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))	968	0	4,838	0.01%
Nickel	29	21	4,579	0.01%
Copper	2	0	2,760	0.00%
Manganese	50	97	1,045	0.00%
Lithium carbonate	162	0	0	0.00%
Cobalt compounds	7	0	0	0.00%
Nonylphenol Ethoxylates	0	11,868	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 2021, 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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