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% |
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.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.