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Sunoco Revenue: $44.00 billion
Greenopia Environment Achievement:
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The Commendable: Sunoco has, without a doubt, the best sustainability reporting of any major oil company. Sunoco works with CERES for its transparency and reports both the good as well as the bad (which is rare). Sunoco provides a plethora of easy to understand, high quality data. Every important environmental metric is accounted for in Sunoco’s report. Sunoco has greatly improved its emissions from its baseline year of 1990 and emits about 11 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent each year (better than the year before). Sunoco is also extremely efficient in its waste production. Sunoco only generates about 14,300 tons of hazardous waste each year which is also considerably lower than most of its competitors. Sunoco has been an industry leader in its efforts in biofuels and other clean fuels and has a proactive stance on climate change. The Questionable: Sunoco had a large number of oil spills in 2009, even when you normalize their production against someone like Exxon. While the volume of oil spilled was better than average, the number of incidents was a bit alarming. It is fair to note, however, that Sunoco does recover a large amount of this oil and has been showing steady improvement in the number of spills each year. Spills Happen: Sunoco has recently had a spill in its Midwest pipeline which released thousands of gallons of oil into nearby areas. This event took place in February of 2009. Greenopia Verdict: Sunoco is our greenest oil company of 2011. Sunoco continues to have the best environmental reporting and is one of the most resource efficient oil companies. |
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