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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