Environment

At Entergy, we adhere to the principles of sustainable growth in all our operations. We aspire to deliver top quartile returns to our owners while simultaneously making progress toward specific societal goals. We don’t believe the pursuit of both goals is mutually exclusive. With extensive market knowledge and sophisticated analysis, we maintain clear points of view on external variables – like environmental policy – that impact our operations and we are guided by those points of view in our strategies and actions. All investments, including socially-oriented ones, are expected to meet our financial aspirations for long term value creation.

Sustainable Development

It is Entergy's vision to:

• Develop and conduct our business in a responsible manner that is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable.
• Promote environmentally cleaner and more efficient generation, transmission, distribution, and use of energy.
• Encourage employees to conduct their personal and corporate lives in such a way that earth's environment is preserved for future generations.

Performance Excellence

It is Entergy's vision to:

• Meet but preferably exceed environmental legal requirements, conforming to the spirit as well as the letter of the law.
• Understand, minimize, and responsibly manage the environmental impacts and risks of our operations, setting goals that reflect continuous improvement.
• Be a good steward of the land that we own and the wildlife and natural resources that are in our care.
• Communicate our commitment to the Policy internally and provide the resources, training, and incentives to carry it out.
• Track and publicly report our environmental performance using best practice reporting guidelines.

Environmental Advocacy

It is Entergy's vision to:

• Inform employees, customers, shareholders and the public on matters important to the environment.
• Maintain a constructive dialogue with government agencies and public officials, communities, environmental groups, and other external organizations on environmental issues.
• Lead by example, demonstrating responsible environmental behavior everywhere we serve and supporting public policy that contributes to an ever-improving global and local environment.