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