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Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2016 Report, Based on 2014 Data)

Toxic 100 Rank	Corporation	RSEI Score (pounds released ⊕ toxicity ⊕ population exposure)	Toxics released to air (millions of pounds)	Toxics transferred for incineration (millions of pounds)	EJ: Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share
1	Alcoa	14,444,034	4.92	0.06	22.0%	76.4%
2	DuPont	7,771,745	3.32	10.08	23.8%	61.3%
3	Bayer (click here for update)	7,387,044	0.27	18.22	21.3%	66.9%
4	General Electric	4,828,401	0.18	0.08	21.2%	33.8%
5	Exxon Mobil	4,327,914	8.82	0.51	24.6%	68.7%
6	Berkshire Hathaway	3,712,082	3.05	0.11	19.6%	37.6%
7	LyondellBasell Industries	3,427,510	4.88	4.11	20.7%	69.7%
8	Koch Industries	3,163,413	29.41	3.64	19.4%	47.5%
9	United Technologies	2,258,199	0.06	0.00	18.7%	52.5%
10	Robert Bosch	2,245,653	0.00	0.00	14.0%	34.1%
11	BASF	2,010,553	5.59	1.67	28.7%	41.7%
12	Rio Tinto	1,910,786	0.12	0.00	13.5%	29.5%
13	Freeport-McMoRan	1,705,053	4.89	0.01	29.2%	51.2%
14	Dow Chemical	1,468,379	5.74	8.89	20.2%	38.8%
15	Valero Energy	1,424,842	4.69	0.06	23.9%	72.4%
16	Emerson Electric	1,417,713	0.03	0.00	15.1%	50.9%
17	Eastman Chemical	1,320,673	7.49	0.29	23.0%	29.5%
18	Huntsman	1,307,660	0.64	7.27	18.5%	37.2%
19	Royal Dutch Shell	1,254,639	2.33	0.19	19.8%	58.9%
20	Occidental Petroleum	1,217,618	0.97	5.26	20.4%	65.7%
21	Steel Dynamics	1,210,165	0.24	0.00	16.7%	28.2%
22	ArcelorMittal	1,146,235	0.93	0.16	27.6%	51.3%
23	Ametek	1,084,122	0.06	0.00	10.2%	26.4%
24	Phillips 66	1,035,889	5.11	0.18	19.7%	62.6%
25	National Oilwell Varco	989,905	0.27	0.02	29.6%	52.6%
26	Eaton	940,368	0.02	0.00	13.0%	29.1%
27	American Electric Power	930,447	19.62	0.00	16.5%	9.9%
28	Albemarle	816,915	0.45	0.24	19.2%	64.9%
29	BP	812,893	2.01	0.06	18.3%	38.8%
30	Schlumberger	795,711	0.04	0.08	23.2%	60.4%
31	NextEra Energy	758,778	0.57	0.00	16.7%	35.3%
32	United States Steel	691,471	2.60	4.75	25.2%	50.9%
33	Celanese	605,140	1.09	16.21	16.8%	59.0%
34	Flowserve	593,791	0.00	0.00	24.6%	32.9%
35	Nucor	590,694	0.35	0.00	22.7%	26.1%
36	Saint-Gobain	568,878	0.61	0.08	15.0%	28.4%
37	Tesoro	554,741	1.99	0.01	21.6%	73.9%
38	ThyssenKrupp	531,872	0.00	0.00	16.3%	55.4%
39	Spirit Aerosystems Holdings Inc	530,000	0.61	0.00	23.4%	44.8%
40	Caterpillar	521,911	0.12	0.00	16.2%	50.8%
41	Honeywell International	520,404	4.68	1.61	23.0%	52.6%
42	Chevron	512,095	2.82	0.21	19.7%	69.0%
43	Icahn Enterprises	495,201	4.33	0.00	17.4%	33.2%
44	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	493,411	1.45	0.00	24.1%	74.4%
45	Total S.A.	490,947	0.71	0.13	26.7%	51.6%
46	Henkel	483,162	0.06	0.13	25.6%	50.2%
47	PPG Industries	466,847	0.61	0.18	15.3%	22.6%
48	Marathon Petroleum	453,040	2.90	0.05	24.5%	46.3%
49	Textron	452,466	0.09	0.00	22.6%	50.1%
50	Praxair	444,899	0.21	0.00	24.1%	42.3%
51	General Motors	407,104	3.12	0.01	17.1%	25.7%
52	DTE Energy	374,944	4.93	0.09	26.7%	47.4%
53	Chemours	360,119	6.28	8.78	19.7%	43.3%
54	AK Steel	343,155	0.33	0.01	21.5%	20.4%
55	Deere	342,304	0.36	0.02	18.8%	24.8%
56	NRG Energy	336,638	18.88	0.00	13.5%	30.0%
57	Xylem Inc	334,325	0.00	0.00	15.2%	38.8%
58	Targa Resources	331,797	0.06	0.02	25.8%	85.5%
59	Cargill	320,437	4.92	0.00	23.7%	52.1%
60	Air Products & Chemicals	314,851	0.39	0.24	17.4%	22.1%
61	Danaher	308,192	0.08	0.00	19.7%	55.2%
62	Delta Air Lines	300,637	0.30	0.00	18.5%	46.3%
63	International Paper	283,930	39.91	0.00	22.9%	43.2%
64	PPL Corp.	276,467	11.25	0.00	15.4%	23.7%
65	3M Company	271,658	2.64	12.64	14.1%	33.8%
66	Archer Daniels Midland	264,033	9.40	0.00	20.9%	26.9%
67	Petrobras	264,020	0.32	0.00	25.1%	81.3%
68	Duke Energy	259,978	17.80	0.00	16.6%	27.4%
69	Martin Marietta Materials	259,332	0.41	0.00	13.1%	47.4%
70	Kimberly-Clark	241,926	1.06	0.00	17.6%	46.3%
71	Huntington Ingalls Industries	237,327	0.22	0.12	23.8%	64.8%
72	Monsanto	235,743	0.48	0.26	13.3%	22.2%
73	Compass Group	235,109	0.00	0.27	11.0%	26.0%
74	Owens Corning	234,253	0.59	0.00	19.0%	49.9%
75	Ashland Inc.	231,477	0.76	0.17	17.1%	36.7%
76	Becton Dickinson	230,333	0.00	0.00	10.0%	24.1%
77	SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries)	217,698	1.68	0.62	14.6%	12.7%
78	FirstEnergy	209,431	11.48	0.00	14.3%	12.0%
79	Mallinckrodt	208,890	0.03	0.81	14.3%	39.4%
80	Boeing	197,948	0.35	0.02	18.8%	42.8%
81	Ford Motor	190,952	2.85	0.00	15.6%	32.9%
82	SAS Global Corp	182,753	0.00	0.00	32.2%	56.4%
83	LKQ	181,156	0.03	0.00	16.3%	7.0%
84	C.R. Bard	179,744	0.34	0.00	19.8%	51.8%
85	Lockheed Martin	173,295	0.00	0.01	26.4%	74.0%
86	LafargeHolcim	172,050	2.20	0.03	15.5%	36.8%
87	Illinois Tool Works	166,823	0.16	0.11	14.8%	52.4%
88	Medtronic	164,717	0.19	0.11	27.0%	47.7%
89	AES Corp.	158,710	9.93	0.00	20.1%	28.1%
90	Invesco	153,669	0.00	0.00	16.6%	25.3%
91	Michelin	148,852	0.48	0.00	24.4%	47.2%
92	Whirlpool	135,805	0.15	0.00	24.7%	8.4%
93	Ecolab	135,678	0.17	0.28	14.6%	67.7%
94	HeidelbergCement	129,212	0.71	0.00	12.9%	36.4%
95	Ingredion	123,581	0.55	0.00	18.7%	51.3%
96	Pentair	118,051	0.02	0.00	23.1%	52.8%
97	Pemex	113,663	0.11	0.00	21.9%	71.8%
98	HollyFrontier	112,959	0.83	0.01	18.6%	28.6%
99	Carpenter Co	112,320	0.01	0.18	19.0%	58.4%
100	Johnson & Johnson	110,981	0.04	0.04	11.4%	27.4%

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

RSEI score: Estimated population chronic health human health risk from air releases and incineration transfers reported to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for the 2014 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.4) from quantity released, toxicity of chemicals, and population exposure. Data are adjusted by the Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP) for subsequent revisions to TRI data, including where available revisions to the share of hexavalent chromium in chromium releases.
Source: US EPA and Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP).

Quantity of toxic air releases and incineration transfers: Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals released to the air on-site or transferred offsite for incineration in the TRI 2014 Reporting Year, without adjustment for toxicity or population exposure.
Source: US EPA.

Environmental Justice (EJ): Poor Share and Minority Share: Shares of the total population health risk borne by people living below the poverty line or by people in minority racial/ethnic groups. In the U.S. population, 14.5 percent live below the poverty line and 36 percent are members of minority racial/ethnic groups.
Sources: US EPA, US Census, and CTIP.

Coverage: This table presents the highest toxic-score companies that appear on the Forbes Global 2000 list, 2016 ranking (first 500 companies only), the Forbes America’s Largest Private Companies list, 2016 ranking, the Fortune 500 list as of the end of 2015 (first 500 companies only), the Fortune Global 500 (made with data from fiscal years ending by March 2016), or the S&P 500 as of July 1 2016. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2016.
Source: CTIP.