New Study - Chemical Insecurity - America’s Most Dangerous Chemical Companies Put Millions of Americans at Risk and Spend More Than $70M to Fend Off Regulation
A new U.S. Public Interest Research Group report identifies the 14 chemical companies that endanger the most Americans in the event of a chemical release. These companies also spent more than 70 million dollars lobbying and bankrolling the campaigns of the Members of Congress on the committees that oversee chemical security policy.
U.S. PIRG’s research also shows how many of the lobbyists hired by these 14 companies participate in the so-called “revolving door” of lobbying employment—moving from positions on the committees of jurisdiction to lobbying the members on them.
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Key finding of the report include:
The fourteen companies with the most people in the danger zones in the event of an accident or attack on one of their facilities are: Clorox, Kuehne Chemical, JCI Jones, KIK Custom Products, DuPont, PVS Chemicals, Olin, DX Holding, Solvay, Valero, Occidental Petroleum, Honeywell, Dow Chemical, and Sunoco..
The Clorox Company, Kuehne Chemical, and JCI Jones Chemical each own facilities that together put more than 12 million people at risk.
These fourteen companies and their affiliated trade associations spent $69,286,198 lobbying the committees with jurisdiction over chemical security legislation in 2008 and 2009—Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security in the House, and Environment and Public Works and Homeland Security and Government Oversight in the Senate.
The political action committees (PACs) of these fourteen companies and the PACs of their affiliated trade associations gave $2,187,868 in the 2008 election cycle and the 2010 cycle to date directly to the campaigns of members of the committees of jurisdiction over chemical security legislation.
These fourteen companies and their affiliated trade associations employ 20 ‘revolving door’ lobbyists who previously staffed the committees of jurisdiction over chemical security and toxics before becoming lobbyists on those same issues.
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