PERI - Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2018 Report, Based on 2015 Data)

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Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index (2018 Report, Based on 2015 Data)


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	Millions of pounds of toxic post-treatment releases	% of toxic hazard from a single facility
1	DowDuPont	49,158,187,594	3.35	17.77	4.93	95%
2	American Electric Power	7,073,470,283	0.2		0.2
3	Honeywell International	6,258,318,122	0.31	1.57	0.46	99%
4	Southern Company	5,632,904,982	0.14		0.14
5	AES Corp.	5,262,308,109	0.08		0.08
6	BASF	4,704,008,052	6.6	2.62	6.83
7	DTE Energy	3,576,966,943	0.05		0.05	91%
8	Duke Energy	3,495,591,252	0.15		0.15
9	ArcelorMittal	2,248,845,744	0.2	0.07	0.2	78%
10	Koch Industries	2,156,282,468	6.39	1.09	6.45
11	PPL Corp.	2,068,517,473	0.08		0.08	86%
12	General Electric	2,001,753,001	0.01	3.43	0.18	92%
13	Eastman Chemical	1,891,775,602	2.79	5.62	2.89	99%
14	Chemours	1,884,514,041	1.23	0.42	1.34
15	Rio Tinto	1,748,685,857	0.01		0.01
16	Exxon Mobil	1,472,700,214	1.43	0.22	1.46
17	NRG Energy	1,471,851,408	0.02		0.02	72%
18	LyondellBasell Industries	1,137,260,875	0.01	3.87	0.47
19	Packaging Corporation of America	1,091,682,607	1		1
20	International Paper	936,380,417	2.86	0.03	2.86
21	Berkshire Hathaway	783,604,342	0.12	1.97	0.19
22	CMS Energy	712,345,484	0.03		0.03	99%
23	United States Steel	710,554,970	5.54		5.54	73%
24	Weyerhaeuser	622,806,103	0.43		0.43	85%
25	Alcoa	617,191,952	0.04		0.04	98%
26	Renco	607,086,660	0.06		0.06
27	FirstEnergy	591,875,672	0.04		0.04
28	AK Steel	585,479,538	18.58	0.03	18.58
29	NiSource	547,979,058	0.05		0.05	100%
30	JBS	500,190,104	7.72	2.9	7.86	98%
31	Scana	476,196,034	0.08		0.08	100%
32	Dominion Energy	283,389,250	0.25		0.25
33	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	267,455,033	0.01	0.09	0.02	100%
34	Chevron	264,107,815	1.27	0.01	1.27
35	Nucor	236,336,054	0.01		0.01
36	Huntington Ingalls Industries	222,643,170	0.01		0.01	96%
37	Andeavor	219,687,556	0.06	0.77	0.13
38	BP	185,452,212	1.04		1.04
39	Phillips 66	178,570,417	6.17	0.66	6.21
40	Cargill	160,961,590	5.15	0.16	5.17	89%
41	Occidental Petroleum	154,439,081	0.16	0.16	0.22
42	Hitachi	148,908,794	0.01		0.01	89%
43	Marathon Petroleum	145,955,800	0.83	0.26	0.86
44	Deere	145,884,594	0.02	0.07	0.02	94%
45	Total S.A.	143,985,991	0.04		0.04	100%
46	Brookfield Asset Management	143,721,599		0.18		81%
47	CF Industries	126,802,029	2.35		2.35	99%
48	Mitsubishi Group	124,973,710	0.01	0.23	0.01	99%
49	Archer Daniels Midland	121,645,495	0.03	1.73	0.07
50	Arconic	112,709,360	0.07	0.34	0.07
51	Valero Energy	102,168,914	2.66	0.17	2.68
52	Entergy	94,010,727	0.01		0.01
53	Leucadia National	90,999,994		0.19	0.08	100%
54	Tyson Foods	81,272,963	15.5	0.19	15.58
55	HeidelbergCement	72,606,121				99%
56	Huntsman	72,202,935	0.12	0.52	0.3	75%
57	Olin	63,538,529				93%
58	Textron	58,709,178		0.02		72%
59	Formosa Plastics	57,738,413	0.01		0.01	79%
60	Macquarie	53,787,584	0.01		0.01
61	HollyFrontier	51,417,727	0.27	0.02	0.27
62	Pentair	51,019,694		0.01		99%
63	Ingredion	49,623,058		1.98	0.28
64	SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries)	48,336,281	0.68		0.68
65	Flex-N-Gate	47,659,889		0.22
66	Newmont Mining	42,276,929				100%
67	Delta Air Lines	41,991,683	0.24		0.24	100%
68	Invesco	39,967,208				100%
69	Harley-Davidson	36,991,652				100%
70	Allegion	34,917,581				100%
71	Bayer	31,510,295	0.16	0.68	0.21	71%
72	Pfizer	30,084,660		1.97	0.2	100%
73	PBF Energy	29,236,918	4.4		4.4
74	Spirit Aerosystems Holdings	29,122,516		0.07		100%
75	Freeport-McMoRan	26,913,111	0.04	0.01	0.04
76	Intel	25,863,063		3.6	0.27
77	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal	23,472,944		0.06	0.03	95%
78	3M Company	21,916,492	0.72	0.19	0.74	87%
79	Royal Dutch Shell	21,062,338	0.67		0.67	100%
80	Tenneco	20,336,244				92%
81	Masco	19,887,652
82	Albemarle	19,346,513		0.21	0.03	89%
83	Novartis	18,724,864		0.08	0.01	100%
84	Icahn Enterprises	18,101,928	0.02	0.09	0.03	85%
85	Eaton	15,629,878		0.02
86	Becton Dickinson	15,571,522		0.3		100%
87	Fortune Brands Home & Security	14,735,405				98%
88	United Technologies	14,662,819		0.05
89	PPG Industries	14,239,028		0.5	0.04
90	Halliburton	13,399,941
91	Schlumberger	13,071,141
92	Roper Technologies	12,568,425		0.03	0.01	100%
93	Snap-on	12,369,606
94	Pemex	12,293,666	0.42		0.42	100%
95	General Motors	11,578,544		0.92	0.05
96	Owens Corning	11,367,507		0.11
97	Caterpillar	10,162,834	0.02		0.02	72%
98	National Oilwell Varco	10,002,028		0.07	0.01	100%
99	Koch Foods	9,773,943	1.88	0.11	1.89	94%
100	Newell Brands	9,424,880				94%

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

This edition of the Toxic 100 Water ranks companies by comparative chronic human health hazard from water pollutants directly released or passed through publicly owned treatment works from large facilities in the US in 2015.

RSEI Hazard: Pounds released directly to surface water plus estimated pounds released post-treatment multiplied by chemical-specific toxicity weights. Sources: (1) pounds released and transferred: US EPA's Toxics Release Inventory, 2015; (2) toxicity weights and post-treatment release estimate: US EPA’s Risk Screening Environmental Indicators, version 2.3.5. 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.

Toxics released to surface water: Millions of pounds of toxic chemical released directly to water on-site plus estimated post-treatment release to surface water from toxic chemicals transferred to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) for sewage treatment (POTWS do not have the equipment necessary to remove all toxics from the waste stream). Source: U.S. EPA.

Coverage: This table presents the RSEI Hazard score companies that appear on the Forbes Global 2000 list (2017 ranking, first 500 companies only), the Forbes America’s Largest Private Companies list (2017 ranking), the Fortune 500 list as of the end of fiscal year 2017, the Fortune Global 500 (2017), or the S&P 500 as of July 26 2017. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2017.
Source: 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. For more information on the data, see the technical notes.