Toxic 100 Air Polluters (Political

Toxic 100 Air Polluters

All TRI Rank	Corporation	Toxic score	Millions of pounds of toxic air releases	Millions of pounds of toxic incineration transfers	EJ: Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share
1	Bayer Group	189,649	0.72	8.88	9.0%	33.8%
2	ExxonMobil	170,689	10.21	0.20	24.3%	65.2%
3	Sunoco	138,743	3.88	0.81	17.5%	38.5%
4	E.I. du Pont de Nemours	122,436	12.43	22.82	16.5%	38.3%
5	ArcelorMittal	117,510	1.40	0.02	21.4%	63.2%
6	Steel Dynamics Inc.	99,952	0.74	0.00	24.6%	11.4%
7	Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM)	97,281	11.11	0.00	21.7%	28.7%
8	Ford Motor Co.	93,854	5.09	0.00	11.8%	24.4%
9	Eastman Kodak Co.	87,328	1.97	0.66	14.8%	29.5%
10	Koch Industries	84,044	33.56	1.94	11.4%	24.5%
11	ConocoPhillips	83,194	6.39	0.11	16.0%	52.8%
12	Valero Energy Corp.	72,294	4.13	0.09	18.2%	59.0%
13	General Electric Co.	66,936	0.45	0.14	13.9%	39.0%
14	AK Steel Holding	66,290	0.30	0.00	18.4%	6.4%
15	Dow Chemical Co.	59,907	11.69	17.19	14.4%	43.0%
16	Alcoa Inc.	59,771	10.40	0.13	10.8%	19.5%
17	Duke Energy	58,765	75.74	0.00	10.2%	19.9%
18	BASF	57,071	7.65	2.99	15.7%	34.2%
19	United States Steel Corp.	54,813	1.71	0.21	17.4%	46.1%
20	Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)	54,171	6.20	0.00	17.9%	60.4%
21	Precision Castparts	52,725	0.12	0.03	13.3%	21.0%
22	General Motors Corp.	51,052	6.90	0.00	17.3%	44.0%
23	Apollo Management	45,882	2.01	2.39	13.9%	42.3%
24	Nucor Corp.	45,564	0.72	0.00	16.5%	31.1%
25	BP	39,700	4.41	0.19	15.6%	61.5%
26	Pfizer Inc.	37,397	0.29	12.81	27.1%	61.5%
27	Eastman Chemical Co.	35,824	7.02	0.35	15.4%	16.7%
28	Royal Dutch Shell	34,859	2.98	2.59	12.1%	47.3%
29	E.ON	34,738	20.23	0.00	11.0%	15.4%
30	Constellation Energy	34,465	13.14	0.00	10.4%	41.2%
31	Honeywell International	32,590	4.79	0.76	15.4%	44.9%
32	Tesoro Corp.	30,824	3.41	0.02	12.0%	45.2%
33	Southern Co.	30,615	74.58	0.00	11.5%	39.2%
34	AES Corp.	29,565	9.41	0.00	17.6%	43.1%
35	Amsted Industries	28,573	0.08	0.00	13.8%	25.9%
36	PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.)	26,918	2.64	0.03	15.4%	45.7%
37	Hess Corp.	26,816	0.54	0.02	16.5%	53.8%
38	Terex	25,901	0.04	0.00	9.5%	18.4%
39	Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.	25,101	2.27	0.00	17.3%	29.6%
40	American Electric Power	21,607	90.28	0.00	12.6%	7.5%
41	Anheuser-Busch	21,411	2.30	0.00	19.3%	46.5%
42	Renco Group	19,637	4.78	0.00	9.8%	11.9%
43	Textron Inc.	19,498	0.32	0.07	10.4%	27.2%
44	Owens Corning	19,375	4.48	0.00	11.7%	44.3%
45	Corning Inc.	19,283	0.43	4.18	13.3%	21.2%
46	Rowan Companies Inc	19,255	0.08	0.00	22.3%	52.5%
47	International Paper Co.	19,167	37.34	0.09	18.1%	42.2%
48	LyondellBasell Industries	19,026	8.52	2.26	16.7%	61.3%
49	RRI Energy (Reliant Energy)	18,108	31.84	0.00	10.2%	11.5%
50	Allegheny Technologies	17,962	0.74	0.03	14.3%	8.7%
51	Dominion Resources Inc.	16,656	13.86	0.00	11.9%	43.4%
52	FirstEnergy	16,482	16.05	0.00	11.1%	12.9%
53	Chrysler Group LLC	16,301	2.46	0.04	15.3%	37.1%
54	Progress Energy Inc.	16,131	37.37	0.00	10.8%	26.1%
55	Ashland Inc.	16,028	0.22	0.10	18.7%	36.6%
56	Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	15,241	4.57	0.00	22.6%	75.3%
57	Timken Co.	14,302	0.07	0.00	17.0%	19.8%
58	SPX Corp.	13,829	0.03	0.00	11.9%	55.6%
59	Sony Corp.	13,507	0.12	0.01	6.4%	15.2%
60	Kimberly-Clark	13,459	0.54	0.00	14.7%	38.0%
61	Occidental Petroleum Co.	13,298	0.88	11.71	15.6%	44.5%
62	HeidelbergCement Group	13,235	0.63	0.00	11.9%	47.1%
63	PPG Industries Inc.	13,192	2.56	0.75	12.3%	21.7%
64	Formosa Petrochemical Corp.	13,191	1.67	0.02	24.2%	60.1%
65	Ball Corp.	12,951	3.64	0.00	12.6%	45.6%
66	Air Products & Chemicals	12,942	0.81	1.46	20.7%	52.8%
67	Cargill	12,891	4.72	0.00	15.8%	35.2%
68	Exelon Corp.	11,952	0.37	0.00	14.4%	38.0%
69	Edison International	11,927	7.95	0.00	13.6%	40.8%
70	DTE Energy	11,512	16.33	0.10	14.5%	35.5%
71	Panasonic Corp.	11,249	0.02	0.00	12.1%	54.4%
72	General Dynamics	11,214	0.47	0.07	19.2%	67.8%
73	Akzo Nobel	10,801	0.57	0.36	23.5%	57.4%
74	Suncor Energy Inc.	10,766	0.07	0.00	11.2%	41.2%
75	NewPage	10,733	8.47	0.00	10.9%	7.1%
76	TECO Energy Inc.	9,569	1.38	0.00	12.4%	34.2%
77	National Grid	9,377	0.37	0.00	13.9%	49.4%
78	Masco Corp.	9,053	2.37	0.10	11.2%	19.5%
79	Syngenta AG	8,941	0.30	1.22	16.1%	62.6%
80	Marathon Oil Corp.	8,720	1.53	0.23	13.9%	35.4%
81	Berkshire Hathaway	8,665	9.09	0.07	12.9%	35.3%
82	Chevron Corp.	8,654	3.73	0.11	17.8%	62.9%
83	Lubrizol Corp.	8,487	0.15	0.21	7.9%	23.3%
84	Smurfit-Stone Container	8,361	15.13	0.01	11.3%	31.6%
85	Saint-Gobain Corp.	8,273	1.97	0.07	15.2%	38.1%
86	Cemex	8,270	0.53	0.00	43.3%	87.0%
87	Crown Holdings Inc.	7,750	3.14	0.00	13.9%	34.7%
88	Evraz Group	7,393	0.01	0.00	18.5%	44.3%
89	ThyssenKrupp Group	7,352	0.40	0.00	9.7%	20.7%
90	Cabot Corp.	7,243	0.89	0.00	11.1%	13.9%
91	Domtar Corp.	6,947	7.34	0.00	13.1%	17.0%
92	Stanley Works	6,824	0.10	0.00	9.3%	29.1%
93	PPL Corp.	6,776	12.11	0.00	7.8%	13.4%
94	United Technologies Corp. (UTC)	6,763	0.09	0.00	9.8%	34.1%
95	MDU Resources Group	6,706	0.26	0.00	30.7%	69.0%
96	Caterpillar Inc.	6,572	0.31	0.00	12.8%	25.1%
97	Pepco Holdings Inc.	6,557	1.88	0.00	12.7%	35.9%
98	3M Co.	6,490	2.73	10.20	11.0%	27.6%
99	Ameren Corp.	6,465	6.93	0.00	8.9%	19.0%
100	Biomet, Inc.	6,459	0.00	0.00	12.3%	47.4%

http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index/

            This is a chart from the website http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index/. This shows two things; one is the top one hundred polluters in the country of the US and also how much toxins each industry produces. This contributes to the greenhouse gasses that are not naturally made in the greenhouse gas effect. The greenhouse gasses that are made mostly seems to be carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur (S). It is bad enough that these industries are making toxins, but what’s even worse is that the toxins released into the air is measured by the millions and on top of that the choice of incineration is not made by the majority of the companies. It might be a bad idea to incinerate, but it does reduce the amount of toxins entering the air.

            Most of the toxins by the chart (if I am reading this right) are mainly affecting the minority portion of the US, but questionably the poor portions of the US are barely affected by the toxins. What puzzles me is the top toxin producer is Bayer Group. The group that makes most medicines for the US yeah is the most toxins. That is an unbelievable thing to think that a medical supplement company would release toxins into the air.

            What I think should be done is have the cap and trade program be placed on all of these industries. If you don’t know what cap and trade is, cap and trade is a program type situation where companies that reaches its limit on how much toxins they can produce that enters the air or surrounding areas then they can trade or buy from another company that hasn’t get to their limits. Another way to reduce the amount of toxins entering the air is to have filters. The filters won’t get all of the toxins out of the air but it will slow down how much is entering the air and surrounding areas. Another thing is to get the government involved to give the companies and industries publicity to promote them into doing a good job in protecting the surrounding area around them. Or go at it the other way and punish the industries and companies for not caring for the health of the environment or humans that breathe the air and live in the area that surround it. I can’t really think of anything that could help stop or slow down the toxin releases, but the ideas I provided are very useful in reducing the pollution releases.

            I truly don’t think that there will be any improvement to the system the industries go by unless somehow the public was to know about this list. What I mean by this is that everyone would have availability to it even without computers. I have a feeling if the government were to get involve there would be some major changes to how much toxins were being produced. I feel like the government will soon get involved if more and more people found out about this list and complained till the point that the government won’t plan out anything they’ll just do what the people want.