The Toxic 100: The Top Corporate Air Polluters in the U.S.
Eastman Chemical was ranked at 11 as one of the Top Corporate Air Polluters in the U.S.
The Toxic 100 index identifies the top U.S. air polluters among the world’s largest corporations. The index relies on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) project. The starting point for the RSEI is the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which reports on releases of toxic chemicals at facilities across the United States. TRI data are widely cited in press stories on “top polluters,” but they have limitations that the Toxic 100 addresses:
Toxic 100 Index (Top 20 are shown below)
Links on company names lead to detailed company reports.
Rank | Corporation | Toxic score | Millions of | Millions of |
1 | 285,661 | 12.73 | 23.00 | |
2 | 213,159 | 12.92 | 0.00 | |
3 | 189,673 | 11.12 | 42.02 | |
4 | 172,773 | 0.72 | 6.93 | |
5 | 162,430 | 2.66 | 0.36 | |
6 | 149,061 | 4.14 | 7.14 | |
7 | 134,573 | 0.94 | 0.00 | |
8 | 129,123 | 2.21 | 0.09 | |
9 | 128,758 | 12.70 | 0.39 | |
10 | 101,428 | 0.27 | 0.00 | |
11 | 98,432 | 6.98 | 0.31 | |
12 | 93,174 | 80.21 | 0.00 | |
13 | 91,993 | 6.56 | 0.01 | |
14 | 87,500 | 0.09 | 0.02 | |
15 | 85,983 | 13.11 | 0.15 | |
16 | 83,993 | 4.46 | 0.14 | |
17 | 75,360 | 6.24 | 0.00 | |
18 | 73,248 | 8.37 | 0.02 | |
19 | 67,632 | 3.16 | 0.00 | |
20 | 65,579 | 20.96 | 0.00 |