The Toxic 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters

Updated April 8, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

This index identifies the top air polluters among corporations. The data come from the 2021 report from the Political Economy Research Institute.

Rank Corporation
1. LyondellBasell
2. Boeing
3. Huntsman
4. BASF
5. Dow Inc.
6. Celanese
7. General Electric
8. Terumo
9. Eastman Chemical
10. Royal Dutch Shell
11. Ecolab
12. National Oilwell Varco
13. Berkshire Hathaway
14. Mitsui
15. Kubota
16. TMS International
17. Ashland Inc.
18. Northrop Grumman
19. Albemarle
20. SPX FLOW
21. Exxon Mobil
22. Howmet Aerospace
23. Rio Tinto
24. Koch Industries
25. Becton Dickinson
26. Kennametal
27. Daikin
28. Occidental Petroleum
29. Akzo Nobel
30. Evonik Industries
31. Freeport-McMoRan
32. Marathon Petroluem
33. Valero Energy
34. Edwards Lifesciences
35. Linde
36. Phillips 66
37. Solvay
38. Ametek
39. Chevron
40. ArcelorMittal
41. Lincoln Electric Holdings
42. Tenneco
43. Emerson Electric
44. Allegheny Technologies
45. Pentair
46. Carpenter Technology
47. Westlake Chemical
48. Kingspan PLC
49. Parker-Hannifin
50. O'Neal Industries
51. Middleby
52. PBF Energy
53. Baxter International
54. United States Steel
55. American Electric Power
56. BP
57. Carlyle Group
58. PPG Industries
59. TechnipFMC
60. Deere
61. Goodyear Tire & Rubber
62. Nucor
63. Formosa Plastics
64. Ingredion
65. American Industrial Partners
66. Medtronic
67. Targa Resources
68. Illinois Tool Workers
69. Husky Energy
70. Owens Corning
71. Komatsu
72. Raytheon Technologies
73. Cornerstone Building Brands
74. Whirlpool
75. Assa Abloy
76. Johnson & Johnson
77. Graphic Packaging
78. Zimmer Biomet
79. Huntington Ingalls Industries
80. Leggett & Platt
81. Trinity Industries
82. International Paper
83. Compass Group
84. Commercial Metals
85. Cardinal Health
86. Eaton
87. Sasol
88. Heidelberg Cement
89. BAE Systems
90. Nutrien Ltd.
91. Royal DSM
92. Henkel
93. Cleveland-Cliffs
94. Oshkosh Corp.
95. Total S.A.
96. ABB Ltd.
97. Asahi Kasei
98. Medline Industries
99. Carpenter Company
100. Spirit Aerosystems Holdings

NOTE: The Toxic 100 index is based on air releases of hundreds of chemicals from industrial facilities across the United States. The rankings take into account not only the quantity of air releases, but the relative toxicity of chemicals, nearby populations, and factors such as prevailing winds and height of smokestacks. The data on chemical releases come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for the year 2007, the latest data available. The data listed above was released in Aug. 2019.

Source: The Toxic 100, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), the University of Massachusetts.
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