The Toxic 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters in the United States, 2012 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 |
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| 1. | Bayer Group | | 2. |
Textron, Inc.1 | | 3. |
General Electric Co. | | 4. |
Precision Castparts | | 5. |
Koch Industries | | 6. |
SPX Corp. | | 7. |
Dow Chemical Co. | | 8. |
ExxonMobil | | 9. |
BASF | | 10. |
Northrup Grumman Corp. | | 11. |
Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) | | 12. |
Sony Corp. | | 13. |
LyondellBasell Industries | | 14. |
Biomet, Inc. | | 15. |
Owens Corning | | 16. |
Berkshire Hathaway | | 17. |
Honeywell International | | 18. |
Eastman Kodak Co. | | 19. |
Ineos | | 20. |
Alcoa Inc. | | 21. |
Cameron International Corp. | | 22. |
Suncor Energy Inc. | | 23. |
Air Products & Chemicals | | 24. |
American Electric Power | | 25. |
General Dynamics | | 26. |
Eastman Chemical Co. | | 27. |
ConocoPhillips | | 28. |
BP | | 29. |
Royal Dutch Shell | | 30. |
Praxair Inc. | | 31. |
Saint-Gobain Corp. | | 32. |
Sunoco | | 33. |
United States Steel Corp. | | 34. |
Allegheny Technologies | | 35. |
Shaw Group | | 36. |
E.I. du Pont de Nemours | | 37. |
Alliant Techsystems Inc. | | 38. |
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) | | 39. |
Valero Energy Corp. | | 40. |
Emerson Electric | | 41. |
Nucor Corp. | | 42. |
Chevron Corp. | | 43. |
Pfizer Inc. | | 44. |
Occidental Petroleum Co. | | 45. |
ArcelorMittal | | 46. |
Stanley Black & Decker | | 47. |
PPG Industries Inc. | | 48. |
Lubrizol Corp. | | 49. |
AK Steel Holding | | 50. |
Joy Global Inc. |
| 51. |
Marathon Oil Corp. | | 52. |
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | | 53. |
Ashland Inc. | | 54. |
Rio Tinto PLC | | 55. |
Duke Energy | | 56. |
Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) | | 57. |
Akzo Nobel | | 58. |
Henkel Group | | 59. |
Mitsubishi Chemical | | 60. |
Huntsman Corp. | | 61. |
ITT Industries Inc. | | 62. |
Tyco International Ltd. | | 63. |
Masco Corp. | | 64. |
Boeing Co. | | 65. |
General Motors Corp. | | 66. |
Exelon Corp. | | 67. |
Stryker Corp. | | 68. |
Southern Co. | | 69. |
Tenneco Inc. | | 70. |
Constellation Energy | | 71. |
Progress Energy Inc. | | 72. |
Weyerhaeuser Co. | | 73. |
Siemens AG | | 74. |
Celanese Corp. | | 75. |
Kohler Co. | | 76. |
Corning Inc. | | 77. |
Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) | | 78. |
Pepco Holdings Inc. | | 79. |
Formosa Petrochemical Corp. | | 80. |
Ford Motor Co. | | 81. |
DTE Energy | | 82. |
Cargill | | 83. |
Rowan Companies Inc. | | 84. |
FirstEnergy | | 85. |
PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.) | | 86. |
Tesoro Corp. | | 87. |
Goodrich Corp. | | 88. |
Barrick Gold Corp. | | 89. |
3M Co. | | 90. |
AES Corp. | | 91. |
Dominion Resources Inc. | | 92. |
Renco Group | | 93. |
E.ON | | 94. |
Drummond Co. Inc. | | 95. |
International Paper Co. | | 96. |
Dover Corp. | | 97. |
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold | | 98. |
Halliburton | | 99. |
C.R. Bard, Inc. | | 100. |
JELD-WEN Inc. |
1The EPA has confirmed that Textron Inc., previously ranked at number two among the Toxic 100, has submitted data revising its 2007 TRI reporting. Based on the revision, Textron 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 2007, the latest data available. The data listed above was released in Aug. 2012.
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