The region's biggest polluters
May 12, 2008 - 5:00 AM |
A little while back I came across a nifty environmental site called Scorecard. It's got a motherlode of searchable data by county, state, company, etc. Here's how the site bills itself:
"Scorecard is the web's most popular resource for information about pollution problems and toxic chemicals. Find out about the pollution problems in your community and learn who is responsible. See which geographic areas and companies have the worst pollution records. Identify which racial/ethnic and income groups bear more than their share of environmental burdens.
Scorecard's Data Sources Scorecard integrates over 400 scientific and governmental databases to generate its customized profiles of local environmental quality and toxic chemicals."
I've tooled around the site, and came up with the following list of the 30 biggest polluters in the two-county area in pounds of pollutants released. The only shortcoming in the data that it dates to 2002. But if that's the lastest comprehensive data available, I guess it's the best we've got.
| Facility |
City |
Pounds |
| CWM CHEMICAL SERVICES L.L.C. |
MODEL CITY |
3,664,041 |
| HUNTLEY GENERATING STATION |
TONAWANDA |
2,642,883 |
| AES SOMERSET L.L.C. |
BARKER |
1,365,372 |
| 3M CO. TONAWANDA |
TONAWANDA |
684,005 |
| BUFFALO COLOR CORP. |
BUFFALO |
339,734 |
| QUEBECOR WORLD BUFFALO INC. |
DEPEW |
328,374 |
| DELPHI HARRISON THERMAL SYS. LOCKPORT |
LOCKPORT |
203,440 |
| IIMAK |
AMHERST |
114,300 |
| DU PONT YERKES PLANT |
TONAWANDA |
107,870 |
| ISG LACKAWANA INC. |
BLASDELL |
90,011 |
| SOVEREIGN PACKAGING GROUP INC. |
BUFFALO |
68,900 |
| GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. |
NIAGARA FALLS |
51,799 |
| UNICELL BODY CO. INC. |
BUFFALO |
34,992 |
| PVS CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS |
BUFFALO |
34,163 |
| SUGAR KAKE COOKIE INC. |
TONAWANDA |
31,460 |
| GIBRALTAR STEEL CORP. |
BUFFALO |
29,211 |
| CANDLELIGHT CABINETRY |
LOCKPORT |
25,300 |
| OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORP. NIAGARA PLANT |
NIAGARA FALLS |
24,238 |
| IVACO STEEL PROCESSING (NEW YORK) L.L.C. |
TONAWANDA |
20,987 |
| FMC CORP. TONAWANDA PLANT |
TONAWANDA |
19,103 |
| DUREZ CORP. |
NIAGARA FALLS |
17,286 |
| DU PONT NIAGARA FALLS PLANT |
NIAGARA FALLS |
16,819 |
| ADM MILLING CO. |
BUFFALO |
16,800 |
| WHITING DOOR MFG. CORP. |
AKRON |
16,338 |
| NIACET CORP. |
NIAGARA FALLS |
16,113 |
| WPS NIAGARA FALLS GENERATING STATION |
NIAGARA FALLS |
15,755 |
| AKZO NOBEL POLYMER CHEMICALS L.L.C. |
BURT |
15,501 |
| GENERAL MILLS OPS. INC. |
BUFFALO |
15,424 |
| DINAIRE L.L.C. |
CHEEKTOWAGA |
14,491 |
| ETHOX CORP. |
BUFFALO |
14,182 |
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