PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Southern Company

Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 4
Surface Water releases 2015 (lbs): 136,623
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2015 (lbs): 92
Pounds released post-treatment 2015 (lbs): 136,656
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2015: 5,632,904,982
Percentage of national total 2015 surface water and POTW hazard: 2.3%

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This company is rank 1 on the Greenhouse 100 list.

Chemicals displayed below: (display facilities) (display chemicals at facilities)
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Chemical	Surface water releases (lbs)	POTW transfers (lbs)	Post-treatment releases (lbs)	Toxic Hazard (quantity x toxicity)	Percent of total company hazard
Arsenic and arsenic compounds	2,213	1	2,214	3,320,271,450	58.94%
Chromium and chromium compounds	4,463	0	4,463	2,231,500,000	39.62%
Copper and copper compounds	41,487	0	41,487	62,230,500	1.10%
Lead and lead compounds	909	0	909	16,363,972	0.29%
Thallium and thallium compounds	79	0	79	1,106,000	0.02%
Nickel and nickel compounds	9,137	7	9,141	831,860	0.01%
Barium and barium compounds	53,514	0	53,514	267,570	0.00%
Selenium and selenium compounds	576	0	576	115,200	0.00%
Manganese and manganese compounds	10,371	0	10,371	73,634	0.00%
Vanadium and vanadium compounds	470	0	470	65,800	0.00%
Mercury and mercury compounds	6	0	6	59,000	0.00%
Zinc and zinc compounds	6,031	84	6,059	19,996	0.00%
Cobalt and cobalt compounds	88	0	88	0	0.00%
Hydrochloric acid	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Hydrogen fluoride	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Ammonia	7,279	0	7,279	0	0.00%
Sulfuric acid	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Beryllium and beryllium compounds	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	0	0	0	0	0.00%

Toxic hazard: Pounds of direct releases to surface water and estimated releases from transfers to Publicly Operated Treatment Works (POTW's) reported in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory for the year 2015, weighted by toxicity of chemicals. Weights are from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators project. For details, see technical notes.

Quantity of toxic surface water releases and POTW transfers: Pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to surface water at each TRI facility or transferred off-site to a POTW, without weighting for toxicity or population.

Quantity of toxic post-treatment releases: Pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to surface water plus released after treatment at POTW's.

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