{"id":474019,"date":"2026-02-17T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:08:07","slug":"10-corporations-linked-to-44-of-u-s-greenhouse-gas-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474019\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Corporations Linked to 44% of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute<\/a> (PERI) recently published a new Greenhouse 100 Suppliers Index, ranking the largest corporate contributors to greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel supplies.<\/p>\n

The researchers identified Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, Exxon Mobil, and Valero Energy as the top four suppliers. Each produced fossil fuels resulting in more than 250 million metric tons (about 275 million tons) of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions.<\/p>\n

The next two companies \u2014 Core Natural Resources, formed by the merger of Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy, and Peabody Energy \u2014 rank highly because of coal mining operations. Rounding out the top 10 are Chevron, Enterprise Products Partners, PDVSA (Petr\u00f3leos de Venezuela S.A.), and PBF Energy. Together, these 10 fossil fuel suppliers account for 44% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

The index reports 2023 greenhouse gas emissions resulting from oil, natural gas (methane), and coal supplies using the latest \u2014 and possibly last \u2014 data available from the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program<\/a>. Last September, the federal agency\u00a0announced its intention to end most of the program and suspend remaining reporting requirements until 2034.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greenhouse 100 Index informs consumers, shareholders, regulators, lawmakers, and communities about corporate releases of climate-altering pollutants into our environment,\u201d said professor\u00a0Michael Ash, co-director of PERI\u2019s Corporate Toxics Information Project<\/a>. \u201cThe EPA decision to effectively end the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program removes access to vital public information and leaves public and private decision-makers flying in the dark or relying on a patchwork of voluntary and potentially cherry-picked or greenwashed reports.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Greenhouse 100 Index<\/a> offers a free, open-access online search tool<\/a>\u00a0that includes all 778 companies reporting to the EPA\u2019s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, including privately held companies, such as\u00a0Koch Industries<\/a>,\u00a0which ranks No. 11 on the Suppliers Index, with more than 100 million metric tons (about 110 million tons) of CO2-equivalent releases.<\/p>\n

The online tool also features state rankings<\/a> and reports detailing the companies and facilities responsible for each state\u2019s fossil fuel supply. Texas, Louisiana, Wyoming, California, and Illinois rank highest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn making this information available, we are building on the historic achievements of the right-to-know movement,\u201d Ash said. \u201cOur goal is to engender public participation in environmental decision-making and to help residents translate the right to know into the right to clean air, clean water and a livable planet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) recently published a new Greenhouse 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-474019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}