Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2023 Report, Based on 2021 Data)
44
Cleveland-Cliffs 178,540,740
16.78
0.21
31%
29%
33%
59
WH Group 118,004,155
10.93
0.95
22%
30%
86%
13
JBS 2,114,279,521
9.64
7.55
45%
60%
73%
36
Phillips 66 263,395,047
6.68
0.18
31%
62%
67%
14
Cargill 1,663,889,215
6.48
0.37
25%
18%
85%
24
PBF Energy 518,759,486
6.36
0.30
23%
35%
94%
16
Koch Industries 1,194,173,842
5.00
1.29
37%
19%
15%
9
BASF 4,110,857,306
4.68
0.75
25%
12%
55%
42
Valero Energy 200,928,682
4.19
0.17
30%
62%
61%
30
Chevron 348,255,376
3.23
0.18
26%
26%
48%
21
International Paper 633,817,641
2.96
0.03
30%
20%
24%
51
United States Steel 154,131,237
2.96
<0.01
43%
11%
86%
6
Exxon Mobil 7,168,257,220
2.42
0.01
39%
67%
97%
15
Eastman Chemical 1,608,526,517
1.41
7.17
43%
27%
99%
23
Packaging Corporation of America 551,201,647
1.10
46%
17%
47%
25
Marathon Petroleum 457,806,700
0.99
0.22
31%
33%
35%
41
Chemours 206,669,899
0.88
<0.01
34%
27%
59%
17
WestRock 1,096,583,354
0.80
4.99
28%
34%
74%
1
Dow Inc. 97,260,947,708
0.77
0.63
42%
54%
98%
11
Indorama Ventures 4,058,101,756
0.57
0.87
42%
36%
76%
62
Graphic Packaging 111,951,595
0.49
0.09
36%
13%
64%
70
Nucor 78,793,471
0.43
0.12
31%
23%
62%
66
Sylvamo 92,808,350
0.31
65%
83%
85%
86
3M Company 41,378,695
0.28
0.19
26%
58%
63%
57
Evonik Industries 123,035,573
0.25
0.38
53%
66%
81%
2
LyondellBasell Industries 26,757,753,954
0.23
4.51
16%
32%
93%
63
Covestro 108,572,159
0.23
<0.01
39%
5%
98%
85
Delta Air Lines 42,459,893
0.23
0.01
45%
49%
100%
33
PPL Corp. 305,493,907
0.21
30%
6%
87%
32
Westlake Chemical 313,478,665
0.20
<0.01
21%
12%
53%
90
Icahn Enterprises 33,496,246
0.19
0.11
31%
29%
76%
7
Duke Energy 7,047,381,817
0.17
20%
5%
97%
77
Occidental Petroleum 65,898,582
0.14
0.14
36%
64%
55%
38
DuPont de Nemours 230,249,605
0.12
15.28
38%
36%
74%
43
Berkshire Hathaway 179,003,302
0.12
1.44
26%
21%
42%
47
Arkema 167,958,713
0.12
0.64
16%
30%
98%
49
Saputo 162,708,003
0.10
2.79
64%
85%
97%
91
Nestle 32,502,466
0.10
0.65
44%
42%
76%
92
OCI N.V. 31,514,608
0.10
<0.01
20%
8%
100%
89
Mosaic Co. 34,610,207
0.08
42%
39%
89%
3
Celanese 20,618,319,265
0.07
7.78
16%
30%
100%
5
Honeywell International 7,322,811,753
0.07
0.01
39%
47%
100%
22
Vistra Energy 612,349,897
0.07
17%
3%
82%
31
American Electric Power 325,271,882
0.07
41%
8%
72%
60
Ashland Global Holdings 116,701,254
0.07
14.00
27%
47%
52%
48
Southern Company 163,387,853
0.05
34%
25%
68%
18
DTE Energy 991,060,120
0.04
<0.01
27%
24%
99%
26
Freeport-McMoRan 401,216,730
0.04
0.01
44%
48%
96%
34
NiSource 303,644,708
0.04
25%
17%
100%
29
FirstEnergy 354,254,692
0.02
35%
14%
92%
35
PTT Group 280,721,965
0.02
2.07
30%
18%
99%
40
Archer Daniels Midland 214,778,086
0.02
1.53
37%
6%
45%
4
Huntsman Corp. 13,807,627,303
0.01
0.03
39%
42%
100%
10
Goodyear Tire & Rubber 4,082,638,286
0.01
0.11
40%
48%
100%
12
Renco 2,267,647,052
0.01
38%
5%
100%
20
Rio Tinto 642,371,711
0.01
<0.01
13%
15%
68%
37
Olin Corp. 254,141,243
0.01
0.06
44%
14%
100%
39
Alcoa 222,021,498
0.01
10%
10%
99%
54
Formosa Plastics 140,095,774
0.01
<0.01
45%
65%
55%
67
OGE Energy 89,102,226
0.01
47%
28%
98%
74
Peabody Energy 71,940,755
0.01
29%
10%
100%
76
Blackstone 67,927,972
0.01
<0.01
33%
24%
99%
80
Carlyle Group 61,401,053
0.01
0.24
20%
13%
28%
8
Boston Scientific Corp. 4,600,000,903
<0.01
25%
14%
100%
19
Mitsui 911,481,255
<0.01
<0.01
37%
55%
100%
27
Mitsubishi Chemical 393,977,762
<0.01
2.05
20%
26%
100%
28
NextEra Energy 390,000,000
<0.01
0%
0%
100%
45
Toray Industries 177,208,903
<0.01
0.01
0%
0%
97%
46
Ingredion 172,773,444
0.92
26%
16%
100%
50
Coca-Cola Co. 158,105,158
0.30
52%
55%
100%
52
Takeda Pharmaceutical 152,078,414
0.04
40%
83%
100%
53
Danone 150,296,599
2.49
0%
0%
99%
55
PepsiCo 127,926,229
0.33
20%
77%
98%
56
Clean Harbors Inc. 126,248,128
<0.01
0.07
36%
65%
92%
58
AES Corp. 122,864,680
<0.01
29%
2%
94%
61
Cabot Corp. 113,727,525
<0.01
35%
24%
100%
64
BMW 106,757,063
0.83
31%
33%
100%
65
Boston Beer Co. 103,960,597
<0.01
0.48
13%
28%
81%
68
PPG Industries 85,780,507
<0.01
0.56
31%
19%
87%
69
Republic Services 84,306,057
<0.01
1.35
33%
29%
59%
71
Halliburton 78,271,061
<0.01
0.03
30%
37%
88%
72
Roper Technologies 75,319,720
0.05
31%
47%
100%
73
Barrick Gold 73,795,096
<0.01
51%
26%
100%
75
Hexcel 70,994,968
<0.01
0.48
31%
47%
100%
78
Pfizer 62,896,970
<0.01
0.67
31%
20%
100%
79
Masco 62,356,259
<0.01
<0.01
23%
9%
71%
81
Abbott Laboratories 60,463,440
0.03
52%
32%
100%
82
KKR & Co. 49,822,973
<0.01
0.52
31%
16%
97%
83
General Mills 49,241,568
<0.01
0.11
42%
5%
100%
84
Novo Holdings A/S 48,922,303
<0.01
0.24
37%
42%
100%
87
Graham Holdings 38,186,000
<0.01
23%
50%
60%
88
Cardinal Health 36,080,002
<0.01
41%
64%
100%
93
Veolia Group 31,258,170
<0.01
2.68
28%
68%
100%
94
Huntington Ingalls Industries 30,558,787
<0.01
<0.01
33%
52%
87%
95
Textron 29,465,630
<0.01
0.02
35%
42%
46%
96
Spirit AeroSystems 29,026,840
<0.01
0.07
41%
33%
100%
97
Intel 27,889,617
1.16
21%
36%
54%
98
J.R. Simplot 27,372,819
0.25
39%
24%
99%
99
Toyota 27,179,948
<0.01
0.43
33%
19%
83%
100
Hitachi 23,404,440
<0.01
<0.01
27%
4%
66%
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. 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 .
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