100919 Corporations that pollute
Most of this information is from the Guardian newspaper, which attributes it to Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute . The top ten sources of pollution include six state owned businesses and four investor owned corporations . Names of heads are included because, as Mitt Romney once said, Corporations are people, too.
| Company | Ownership | Board Chair or CEO | Billion tons of carbon dioxide since 1965 |
| Saudi Aramco | State Owned – Saudi Arabia | HE Yassir Othman Al-Rumayyan | 59.26 |
| Chevron | Investor Owned | Michael K (Mike) Wirth | 43.35 |
| Gazprom | State Owned – Russia | Viktor Zubkov | 42.23 |
| ExxonMobil | Investor Owned | Darren W. Woods | 41.19 |
| National Iranian Oil | State Owned – Iran | National Oil Minister: Bijan Zanganeh | 35.66 |
| BP (AKA British Petroleum) | Investor Owned | Bob Dudley (to step down to be replaced by Bernard Looney) | 34.02 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | Investor Owned | Ben van Beurden | 31.95 |
| Coal India | State Owned – India | Shri Anil Kumar Jha | 23.12 |
| Pemex | State Owned — Mexico | Secretary of Energy: Norma Rocio Nahle Garcia | 22.65 |
| Petroleos de Venezuela | State Owned — Venezuela | Minister of Petroleum: Manuel Quevedo | 15.75 |