Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2023 Report, Based on 2021 Data)

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49 Saputo 162,708,003 0.10 2.79 64% 85% 97%
52 Takeda Pharmaceutical 152,078,414 0.04 40% 83% 100%
66 Sylvamo 92,808,350 0.31 65% 83% 85%
55 PepsiCo 127,926,229 0.33 20% 77% 98%
93 Veolia Group 31,258,170 <0.01 2.68 28% 68% 100%
6 Exxon Mobil 7,168,257,220 2.42 0.01 39% 67% 97%
57 Evonik Industries 123,035,573 0.25 0.38 53% 66% 81%
54 Formosa Plastics 140,095,774 0.01 <0.01 45% 65% 55%
56 Clean Harbors Inc. 126,248,128 <0.01 0.07 36% 65% 92%
77 Occidental Petroleum 65,898,582 0.14 0.14 36% 64% 55%
88 Cardinal Health 36,080,002 <0.01 41% 64% 100%
36 Phillips 66 263,395,047 6.68 0.18 31% 62% 67%
42 Valero Energy 200,928,682 4.19 0.17 30% 62% 61%
13 JBS 2,114,279,521 9.64 7.55 45% 60% 73%
86 3M Company 41,378,695 0.28 0.19 26% 58% 63%
19 Mitsui 911,481,255 <0.01 <0.01 37% 55% 100%
50 Coca-Cola Co. 158,105,158 0.30 52% 55% 100%
1 Dow Inc. 97,260,947,708 0.77 0.63 42% 54% 98%
94 Huntington Ingalls Industries 30,558,787 <0.01 <0.01 33% 52% 87%
87 Graham Holdings 38,186,000 <0.01 23% 50% 60%
85 Delta Air Lines 42,459,893 0.23 0.01 45% 49% 100%
10 Goodyear Tire & Rubber 4,082,638,286 0.01 0.11 40% 48% 100%
26 Freeport-McMoRan 401,216,730 0.04 0.01 44% 48% 96%
5 Honeywell International 7,322,811,753 0.07 0.01 39% 47% 100%
60 Ashland Global Holdings 116,701,254 0.07 14.00 27% 47% 52%
72 Roper Technologies 75,319,720 0.05 31% 47% 100%
75 Hexcel 70,994,968 <0.01 0.48 31% 47% 100%
4 Huntsman Corp. 13,807,627,303 0.01 0.03 39% 42% 100%
84 Novo Holdings A/S 48,922,303 <0.01 0.24 37% 42% 100%
91 Nestle 32,502,466 0.10 0.65 44% 42% 76%
95 Textron 29,465,630 <0.01 0.02 35% 42% 46%
89 Mosaic Co. 34,610,207 0.08 42% 39% 89%
71 Halliburton 78,271,061 <0.01 0.03 30% 37% 88%
11 Indorama Ventures 4,058,101,756 0.57 0.87 42% 36% 76%
38 DuPont de Nemours 230,249,605 0.12 15.28 38% 36% 74%
97 Intel 27,889,617 1.16 21% 36% 54%
24 PBF Energy 518,759,486 6.36 0.30 23% 35% 94%
17 WestRock 1,096,583,354 0.80 4.99 28% 34% 74%
25 Marathon Petroleum 457,806,700 0.99 0.22 31% 33% 35%
64 BMW 106,757,063 0.83 31% 33% 100%
96 Spirit AeroSystems 29,026,840 <0.01 0.07 41% 33% 100%
2 LyondellBasell Industries 26,757,753,954 0.23 4.51 16% 32% 93%
81 Abbott Laboratories 60,463,440 0.03 52% 32% 100%
3 Celanese 20,618,319,265 0.07 7.78 16% 30% 100%
47 Arkema 167,958,713 0.12 0.64 16% 30% 98%
59 WH Group 118,004,155 10.93 0.95 22% 30% 86%
44 Cleveland-Cliffs 178,540,740 16.78 0.21 31% 29% 33%
69 Republic Services 84,306,057 <0.01 1.35 33% 29% 59%
90 Icahn Enterprises 33,496,246 0.19 0.11 31% 29% 76%
65 Boston Beer Co. 103,960,597 <0.01 0.48 13% 28% 81%
67 OGE Energy 89,102,226 0.01 47% 28% 98%
15 Eastman Chemical 1,608,526,517 1.41 7.17 43% 27% 99%
41 Chemours 206,669,899 0.88 <0.01 34% 27% 59%
27 Mitsubishi Chemical 393,977,762 <0.01 2.05 20% 26% 100%
30 Chevron 348,255,376 3.23 0.18 26% 26% 48%
73 Barrick Gold 73,795,096 <0.01 51% 26% 100%
48 Southern Company 163,387,853 0.05 34% 25% 68%
18 DTE Energy 991,060,120 0.04 <0.01 27% 24% 99%
61 Cabot Corp. 113,727,525 <0.01 35% 24% 100%
76 Blackstone 67,927,972 0.01 <0.01 33% 24% 99%
98 J.R. Simplot 27,372,819 0.25 39% 24% 99%
70 Nucor 78,793,471 0.43 0.12 31% 23% 62%
43 Berkshire Hathaway 179,003,302 0.12 1.44 26% 21% 42%
21 International Paper 633,817,641 2.96 0.03 30% 20% 24%
78 Pfizer 62,896,970 <0.01 0.67 31% 20% 100%
16 Koch Industries 1,194,173,842 5.00 1.29 37% 19% 15%
68 PPG Industries 85,780,507 <0.01 0.56 31% 19% 87%
99 Toyota 27,179,948 <0.01 0.43 33% 19% 83%
14 Cargill 1,663,889,215 6.48 0.37 25% 18% 85%
35 PTT Group 280,721,965 0.02 2.07 30% 18% 99%
23 Packaging Corporation of America 551,201,647 1.10 46% 17% 47%
34 NiSource 303,644,708 0.04 25% 17% 100%
46 Ingredion 172,773,444 0.92 26% 16% 100%
82 KKR & Co. 49,822,973 <0.01 0.52 31% 16% 97%
20 Rio Tinto 642,371,711 0.01 <0.01 13% 15% 68%
8 Boston Scientific Corp. 4,600,000,903 <0.01 25% 14% 100%
29 FirstEnergy 354,254,692 0.02 35% 14% 92%
37 Olin Corp. 254,141,243 0.01 0.06 44% 14% 100%
62 Graphic Packaging 111,951,595 0.49 0.09 36% 13% 64%
80 Carlyle Group 61,401,053 0.01 0.24 20% 13% 28%
9 BASF 4,110,857,306 4.68 0.75 25% 12% 55%
32 Westlake Chemical 313,478,665 0.20 <0.01 21% 12% 53%
51 United States Steel 154,131,237 2.96 <0.01 43% 11% 86%
39 Alcoa 222,021,498 0.01 10% 10% 99%
74 Peabody Energy 71,940,755 0.01 29% 10% 100%
79 Masco 62,356,259 <0.01 <0.01 23% 9% 71%
31 American Electric Power 325,271,882 0.07 41% 8% 72%
92 OCI N.V. 31,514,608 0.10 <0.01 20% 8% 100%
33 PPL Corp. 305,493,907 0.21 30% 6% 87%
40 Archer Daniels Midland 214,778,086 0.02 1.53 37% 6% 45%
7 Duke Energy 7,047,381,817 0.17 20% 5% 97%
12 Renco 2,267,647,052 0.01 38% 5% 100%
63 Covestro 108,572,159 0.23 <0.01 39% 5% 98%
83 General Mills 49,241,568 <0.01 0.11 42% 5% 100%
100 Hitachi 23,404,440 <0.01 <0.01 27% 4% 66%
22 Vistra Energy 612,349,897 0.07 17% 3% 82%
58 AES Corp. 122,864,680 <0.01 29% 2% 94%
28 NextEra Energy 390,000,000 <0.01 0% 0% 100%
45 Toray Industries 177,208,903 <0.01 0.01 0% 0% 97%
53 Danone 150,296,599 2.49 0% 0% 99%

Explanatory notes (For details, see the technical notes).

This edition of the Toxic 100 Water Polluters 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 2021.

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, 2021; (2) toxicity weights and hazard calculation: US EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators, version 2.3.11. 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 2023. 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 Polluters. For more information on the data, see the technical notes.