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Videos Profiles of Superfund Companies and Agencies

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Superfund Companies and Agencies

Original EPA List

How We Did It

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WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 — About 100 companies are connected to more than 40 percent of America’s most dangerously contaminated toxic waste sites, according to an analysis of a controversial and confidential government document obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

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The directory below displays the company names that appear on the original list created by the Environmental Protection Agency, entitled, “Top 100 PRPs [potentially responsible parties] Based on Number of Sites At Which They Are Involved,” updated by the Center to reflect any parent company names or subsidiary status. The Center also included federal agencies.

The Center ran thousands of queries through the EPA’s databases and contacted each company to determine the identity of its sites, which weren’t included in the EPA’s list. Single sites often have multiple companies connected to them.

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Click on a company name below to find out about the Superfund sites it is linked to, view a map and see the status of those sites, and learn about its campaign contributions and lobby spending.

Based on internal EPA document obtained by the Center listing the Top 100 PRPs Based on number of Sites At Which They Are Involved created in 2005.