Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2024 Report, Based on 2022 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
1	Dow Inc.	98,871,539,120	0.43	0.56	46%	66%	99%
2	Huntsman Corp.	36,316,085,590	0.02	0.07	43%	45%	100%
3	Xylem	21,939,738,971	<0.01	0.15	25%	14%	100%
4	Celanese	15,900,011,131	0.06	9.93	17%	35%	100%
5	Exxon Mobil	8,128,223,656	2.95	0.02	41%	75%	86%
6	Honeywell International	7,293,405,407	0.07	<0.01	40%	47%	100%
7	Boston Scientific Corp.	4,890,001,216		0.01	25%	14%	100%
8	Alfa S.A.B.	4,273,290,268	0.10	<0.01	24%	30%	56%
9	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	3,774,528,832	0.01	0.07	26%	60%	100%
10	JBS	3,050,960,836	7.12	6.11	44%	51%	77%
11	Indorama Ventures	2,728,111,027	0.58	0.89	38%	32%	95%
12	Eastman Chemical	2,454,249,655	1.47	4.89	35%	29%	99%
13	BASF	2,088,986,220	4.01	0.86	24%	16%	83%
14	Duke Energy	1,743,983,343	0.10		22%	8%	95%
15	DTE Energy	1,339,431,949	0.03	<0.01	25%	14%	100%
16	Smurfit Westrock plc	1,264,098,679	0.82	5.20	28%	39%	71%
17	Koch Industries	1,185,734,748	5.04	1.51	32%	15%	15%
18	LyondellBasell Industries	1,132,448,867	0.22	6.26	19%	64%	82%
19	Ashland Global Holdings	944,510,000	0.11	13.58	20%	44%	62%
20	Graham Holdings	805,308,916	<0.01		18%	59%	97%
21	Cargill	714,374,163	6.02	0.62	28%	25%	58%
22	International Paper	707,898,576	3.15	0.03	33%	24%	24%
23	Mitsubishi Chemical	667,747,234	<0.01	1.89	17%	25%	100%
24	Rio Tinto	588,185,597	0.01	<0.01	14%	20%	67%
25	Marathon Petroleum	546,983,193	0.96	0.31	22%	31%	44%
26	PBF Energy	495,225,299	5.96	0.33	24%	36%	93%
27	Chevron	484,585,050	2.92	0.17	29%	25%	51%
28	Packaging Corporation of America	462,531,627	1.02		43%	21%	49%
29	Ingredion	403,976,236		0.78	24%	17%	99%
30	Freeport-McMoRan	400,411,333	0.04	0.01	36%	44%	96%
31	Phillips 66	387,518,415	7.79	0.22	27%	57%	52%
32	American Electric Power	368,343,347	0.55		33%	37%	48%
33	Chemours	357,526,914	1.46	<0.01	30%	25%	78%
34	Vistra Energy	319,748,202	0.03		21%	6%	95%
35	Berkshire Hathaway	280,427,173	0.10	1.42	28%	28%	49%
36	Toray Industries	277,062,721	<0.01	0.01	27%	26%	94%
37	PTT Group	241,622,681	0.02	1.90	29%	20%	99%
38	Sime Darby Group	239,712,469		0.27	28%	16%	100%
39	Saputo	239,176,637	0.09	2.90	45%	89%	96%
40	DuPont de Nemours	238,302,562	0.11	15.43	40%	51%	81%
41	Parker-Hannifin	221,237,652	<0.01	0.02	39%	19%	98%
42	Olin Corp.	219,325,316	0.01	0.08	40%	14%	100%
43	NiSource	211,910,845	0.03		24%	18%	100%
44	Alcoa	211,679,717	0.01		12%	15%	98%
45	Renco	199,773,077	0.01		35%	8%	93%
46	FirstEnergy	198,093,800	0.01		35%	17%	75%
47	Mitsui	191,256,359	<0.01	<0.01	38%	66%	100%
48	Formosa Plastics	182,284,156	0.01	<0.01	50%	61%	57%
49	United States Steel	172,517,982	4.07	<0.01	46%	14%	86%
50	Southern Company	171,085,950	0.05		31%	26%	65%
51	Westlake Chemical	171,008,093	0.27	<0.01	30%	19%	35%
52	PPL Corp.	169,319,738	0.18		39%	3%	53%
53	PepsiCo	166,155,304		0.38	21%	66%	97%
54	Boston Beer Co.	158,245,927	<0.01	0.53	36%	48%	53%
55	Takeda Pharmaceutical	147,813,233		0.09	36%	82%	100%
56	Halliburton	142,905,137	<0.01	0.01	19%	34%	99%
57	Archer Daniels Midland	136,609,249	0.03	4.43	29%	5%	53%
58	Covestro	131,530,006	0.29	<0.01	37%	6%	77%
59	WEC Energy Group	127,448,985	<0.01		23%	9%	100%
60	Graphic Packaging	117,258,614	0.74	0.08	38%	26%	59%
61	FJ Management	116,758,574		0.01	29%	30%	100%
62	Evonik Industries	112,753,677	0.36	0.33	32%	35%	88%
63	WH Group	107,072,162	9.95	0.44	18%	25%	91%
64	Cleveland-Cliffs	105,999,472	17.44	0.15	34%	19%	31%
65	OGE Energy	100,403,161	<0.01		48%	28%	100%
66	ENEOS Holdings	99,434,977		<0.01	17%	35%	100%
67	Greif Inc.	96,879,009	<0.01	0.02	20%	10%	98%
68	Sylvamo	92,900,352	0.32		61%	79%	86%
69	AES Corp.	84,049,186	<0.01		27%	0%	91%
70	J.R. Simplot	81,478,368	<0.01	0.31	38%	22%	92%
71	Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)	80,871,094	1.58		25%	37%	76%
72	Delek	79,554,309	0.92	<0.01	50%	42%	97%
73	Occidental Petroleum	70,751,175	0.12	0.12	60%	84%	37%
74	Valero Energy	67,536,704	4.19	0.17	35%	54%	60%
75	Kerry Group	65,707,603	0.08	1.02	23%	10%	99%
76	Kraft Heinz	63,651,607	<0.01	0.86	0%	0%	89%
77	Hexcel	63,119,735	<0.01	1.94	23%	34%	100%
78	KKR & Co.	61,084,123	<0.01	0.43	31%	76%	87%
79	Carlyle Group	57,351,941	0.01	0.24	17%	35%	42%
80	Abbott Laboratories	57,028,662		0.03	50%	32%	100%
81	PPG Industries	56,590,107	<0.01	0.39	27%	23%	85%
82	BMW	55,093,594		0.58	26%	37%	100%
83	Roper Technologies	53,759,380		0.03	26%	50%	100%
84	Masco	51,871,161	<0.01	<0.01	21%	11%	71%
85	Republic Services	50,740,102	<0.01	1.87	38%	33%	62%
86	Barrick Gold	49,733,022	<0.01		49%	27%	100%
87	Bayer	49,196,017	0.18		35%	26%	46%
88	Cabot Corp.	45,402,910	<0.01		28%	31%	100%
89	Blackstone	42,916,301	0.02		28%	46%	94%
90	Icahn Enterprises	41,529,142	0.25	0.12	30%	32%	82%
91	Cardinal Health	39,600,000		<0.01	42%	66%	100%
92	Delta Air Lines	38,508,095	0.24	<0.01	42%	43%	100%
93	Rank Group	37,936,220	0.14		34%	11%	63%
94	Veolia Group	37,389,825	<0.01	3.19	21%	25%	99%
95	Shin-Etsu Chemical	36,608,257	<0.01	0.78	34%	51%	99%
96	Trafigura	35,558,258	0.22		32%	11%	99%
97	Nestle	35,415,568	0.12	0.67	33%	21%	81%
98	Huntington Ingalls Industries	31,975,990	<0.01	<0.01	37%	61%	90%
99	Pfizer	31,264,084	<0.01	0.46	31%	20%	100%
100	Darling Ingredients	30,343,030	0.49	1.57	19%	6%	96%

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 2022.

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, 2022; (2) toxicity weights and hazard calculation: US EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators, version 2.3.12. 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 2024. 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.