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The Toxic 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters in the United States

This index identifies the top air polluters among corporations that appear in the “Fortune 500,” “Forbes 500,” and “Standard & Poor's 500” lists of the country's largest firms.

RankCorporationRankCorporation
1.E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.51.The AES Corp.
2.United States Steel Corp.52.Procter & Gamble Co.
3.ConocoPhillips53.Lyondell Chemical Co.
4.General Electric Co.54.Leggett & Platt Inc.
5.Eastman Kodak Co.55.Sunoco Inc.
6.Exxon Mobil Corp.56.Emerson Electric Co.
7.Ford Motor Co.57.MeadWestvaco Corp.
8.(1)58.FirstEnergy Corp.
9.Alcoa Inc.59.Ball Corp.
10.Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM)60.Textron Inc.
11.The Dow Chemical Co.61.Rowan Cos. Inc.
12.Eastman Chemical Co., Inc.62.Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.
13.The Boeing Co.63.Mirant Corp.
14.Nucor Corp.64.Chevron Corp.
15.Georgia-Pacific Corp.65.Southern Co.
16.AK Steel Holding Corp.66.ArvinMeritor Inc.
17.Northrop Grumman Corp.67.Lear Corp.
18.Deere & Co.68.Visteon Corp.
19.Dominion Resources Inc.69.Monsanto Co.
20.General Motors Corp.70.3M Co.
21.Delphi Corp.71.Xcel Energy Inc.
22.Tesoro Corp.72.Crown Holdings Inc.
23.Phelps Dodge Corp.73.Rohm & Haas Co.
24.Temple-Inland Inc.74.Federal-Mogul Corp.
25.The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.75.PPG Industries Inc.
26.Allegheny Technologies Inc.76.Great Lakes Chemical Corp.
27.International Paper Co.77.ICI American Holdings Inc.
28.Valero Energy Corp.78.Corning Inc.
29.Progress Energy Inc.79.El Paso Corp.
30.Kerr-McGee Corp.80.Heartland Industrial Partners LP
31.Danaher Corp.81.Amerada Hess Corp.
32.Engelhard Corp.82.Allegheny Energy Inc.
33.Constellation Energy Group Inc.83.Exelon Corp.
34.Berkshire Hathaway Inc.84.Marathon Oil Co.
35.American Electric Power85.Goodrich Corp.
36.Reliant Energy Inc.86.Armstrong Holdings Inc.
37.Teco Energy Inc.87.The Shaw Group Inc.
38.Becton, Dickinson & Co.88.Praxair Inc.
39.Premcor Inc.89.Pfizer Inc.
40.Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.90.Brunswick Corp.
41.Tyco International Ltd.91.Ameren Corp.
42.Weyerhaeuser Co.92.Dana Corp.
43.United Technologies Corp. (UTC)93.Altria Group Inc.
44.Honeywell International Inc.94.Hercules Inc.
45.Owens Corning95.The Stanley Works
46.Duke Energy Corp.96.Kimberly-Clark Corp.
47.Occidental Petroleum Co.97.Harley-Davidson Inc.
48.Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG)98.Mohawk Industries Inc.
49.Cinergy Corp.99.Plum Creek Timber Co. L.P.
50.Ashland Inc.100.Illinois Tool Works Inc.
1. The EPA has confirmed that Tyson Foods, previously ranked at number eight among the Toxic 100, has submitted data revising its 2002 TRI reporting. Based on the revision, Tyson Foods is no longer ranked among the Toxic 100. The next edition of the Toxic 100 will reflect the most current information from the EPA.
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 2002, the latest data available.
Source: The Toxic 100, http://www.peri.umass.edu/Toxic-100-Table.265.0.html Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), the University of Massachusetts.

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