The Toxic 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters in the United States, 2010
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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.
| Rank | Corporation |
|---|---|
| 1. | Bayer Group |
| 2. | ExxonMobil |
| 3. | Sunoco |
| 4. | E.I. du Pont de Nemours |
| 5. | ArcelorMittal |
| 6. | Steel Dynamics Inc. |
| 7. | Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) |
| 8. | Ford Motor Co. |
| 9. | Eastman Kodak Co. |
| 10. | Koch Industries |
| 11. | ConocoPhillips |
| 12. | Valero Energy Corp. |
| 13. | General Electric Co. |
| 14. | AK Steel Holding |
| 15. | Dow Chemical Co. |
| 16. | Alcoa Inc. |
| 17. | Duke Energy |
| 18. | BASF |
| 19. | United States Steel Corp. |
| 20. | Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) |
| 21. | Precision Castparts |
| 22. | General Motors Corp. |
| 23. | Apollo Management |
| 24. | Nucor Corp. |
| 25. | BP |
| 26. | Pfizer Inc. |
| 27. | Eastman Chemical Co. |
| 28. | Royal Dutch Shell |
| 29. | E.ON |
| 30. | Constellation Energy |
| 31. | Honeywell International |
| 32. | Tesoro Corp. |
| 33. | Southern Co. |
| 34. | AES Corp. |
| 35. | Amsted Industries |
| 36. | PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.) |
| 37. | Hess Corp. |
| 38. | Terex |
| 39. | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. |
| 40. | American Electric Power |
| 41. | Anheuser-Busch |
| 42. | Renco Group |
| 43. | Textron Inc. |
| 44. | Owens Corning |
| 45. | Corning Inc. |
| 46. | Rowan Companies Inc |
| 47. | International Paper Co. |
| 48. | LyondellBasell Industries |
| 49. | RRI Energy (Reliant Energy) |
| 50. | Allegheny Technologies |
| 51. | Dominion Resources Inc. |
| 52. | FirstEnergy |
| 53. | Chrysler Group LLC |
| 54. | Progress Energy Inc. |
| 55. | Ashland Inc. |
| 56. | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold |
| 57. | Timken Co. |
| 58. | SPX Corp. |
| 59. | Sony Corp. |
| 60. | Kimberly-Clark |
| 61. | Occidental Petroleum Co. |
| 62. | HeidelbergCement Group |
| 63. | PPG Industries Inc. |
| 64. | Formosa Petrochemical Corp. |
| 65. | Ball Corp. |
| 66. | Air Products & Chemicals |
| 67. | Cargill |
| 68. | Exelon Corp. |
| 69. | Edison International |
| 70. | DTE Energy |
| 71. | Panasonic Corp. |
| 72. | General Dynamics |
| 73. | Akzo Nobel |
| 74. | Suncor Energy Inc. |
| 75. | NewPage |
| 76. | TECO Energy Inc. |
| 77. | National Grid |
| 78. | Masco Corp. |
| 79. | Syngenta AG |
| 80. | Marathon Oil Corp. |
| 81. | Berkshire Hathaway |
| 82. | Chevron Corp. |
| 83. | Lubrizol Corp. |
| 84. | Smurfit-Stone Container |
| 85. | Saint-Gobain Corp. |
| 86. | Cemex |
| 87. | Crown Holdings Inc. |
| 88. | Evraz Group |
| 89. | ThyssenKrupp Group |
| 90. | Cabot Corp. |
| 91. | Domtar Corp. |
| 92. | Stanley Works |
| 93. | PPL Corp. |
| 94. | United Technologies Corp. (UTC) |
| 95. | MDU Resources Group |
| 96. | Caterpillar Inc. |
| 97. | Pepco Holdings Inc. |
| 98. | 3M Co. |
| 99. | Ameren Corp. |
| 100. | Biomet, Inc. |
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 2005, the latest data available. The data listed above was released in March 2010.
Source: The Toxic 100, /node/4994 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), the University of Massachusetts.
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