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