PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN) announced today that it has published its 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report, marking the nineteenth consecutive year that the company has publicly reported its performance.
In 1993, Sunoco became the first Fortune 500 company to endorse the Ceres Principles, a 10-point code of environmental conduct that includes public reporting of environmental performance. Sunoco believes that excellence in health, environment and safety (HES) goes hand-in-hand with financial performance.
The report provides comprehensive information in the following areas: environmental performance; employee and contractor safety; energy use; climate change; product stewardship; security and business continuity; workforce preparedness; and community engagement. HES data contained in the report reflect the performance of Sunoco’s various business units, as well as individual facilities. In addition, the report reinforces the importance of continuous improvement, discusses anticipated challenges, and includes anecdotes that highlight various HES-related activities, such as Sunoco’s involvement with Community Advisory Panels.
The report, which uses the Global Reporting Initiative Reporting Framework Version 3 or G3, is available at: http://hesreport.sunocoinc.com/fw/main/Home-1192.html. Important features of the online version can be found by accessing the “How to Use This Report” link located in the top navigation bar on each Web page of the report.
Ceres, a unique coalition of institutional investors, environmental organizations and public interest groups, is a worldwide leader in standardized corporate environmental reporting through the Global Reporting Initiative. Over 70 corporations have now joined with Sunoco to endorse the Ceres Principles and work with Ceres to find concrete solutions to environmental challenges.
Sunoco is a leading transportation fuel provider with operations located primarily in the East Coast and Midwest regions of the United States. The company sells transportation fuels through more than 4,900 branded retail locations in 23 states. APlus convenience stores are operated by the company or independent dealers in more than 600 retail locations. The retail network in the Northeast is principally supplied by Sunoco-owned refineries with a combined crude oil processing capacity of 505,000 barrels per day. Sunoco is also the General Partner and has a 31-percent interest in Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P., a publicly traded master limited partnership which owns and operates 7,600 miles of refined product and crude oil pipelines and approximately 40 active product terminals. Through SunCoke Energy, Sunoco makes high-quality metallurgical-grade coke for major steel manufacturers. The company's facilities in the U.S. have the capacity to manufacture approximately 3.67 million tons of metallurgical coke annually. Sunoco also is the operator of, and has an equity interest in, a 1.7 million tons-per-year coke-making facility in Vitória, Brazil.