Alpha Natural Resources
1. Evaluate Alpha Natural Resources’ (ANR) corporate social responsibility CSR) performance. Be sure to reference information both from the company’s own webpages and from the media or watchdog agencies.
Alpha Natural Resources is one of the largest coal producers in the United States. It’s business ranges from extracting, processing and marketing steam and metallurgical coal to services related to equipment repairs, road construction and logistics. The company’s clients include electric utilities, steel and coke producers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. ANR was founded in 2002 and now operates 107 mines and 26 coal preparation facilities with approximately 4.6 billion tons of coal reserves. As one of the US’s largest coal supplier, ANR should do more for its corporate social responsibility due to the nature its nature of business. ANR seems doing decent from a preliminary media research. Several of its affiliates have been awarded for their environmental accomplishments such as drainage and erosion control in the past few years (PR Newswire).
ANR’s 2011 sustainability report gives us an overview of the company’s corporate social responsibility performance. The company addresses its CSR mainly from three aspects: the employee, the environment and the communities. ANR is committed to keep its employees’ safe and health through a “Running Right, Leading Right and Living Right” plan that helps the company protect their workers and measure their progress toward their goal of eliminating at-risk behaviors. ANR also established a talent development program that better equips the employee with technical and management skills. ANR’s approach to environmental stewardship is based on a robust environmental management system to ensure compliance and investments in technological solutions that help solve environmental challenges. Some of their top environmental achievements in 2011 included 99.7% water quality compliance rate, 15027 tons of
Alpha Natural Resources is one of the largest coal producers in the United States. It’s business ranges from extracting, processing and marketing steam and metallurgical coal to services related to equipment repairs, road construction and logistics. The company’s clients include electric utilities, steel and coke producers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. ANR was founded in 2002 and now operates 107 mines and 26 coal preparation facilities with approximately 4.6 billion tons of coal reserves. As one of the US’s largest coal supplier, ANR should do more for its corporate social responsibility due to the nature its nature of business. ANR seems doing decent from a preliminary media research. Several of its affiliates have been awarded for their environmental accomplishments such as drainage and erosion control in the past few years (PR Newswire).
ANR’s 2011 sustainability report gives us an overview of the company’s corporate social responsibility performance. The company addresses its CSR mainly from three aspects: the employee, the environment and the communities. ANR is committed to keep its employees’ safe and health through a “Running Right, Leading Right and Living Right” plan that helps the company protect their workers and measure their progress toward their goal of eliminating at-risk behaviors. ANR also established a talent development program that better equips the employee with technical and management skills. ANR’s approach to environmental stewardship is based on a robust environmental management system to ensure compliance and investments in technological solutions that help solve environmental challenges. Some of their top environmental achievements in 2011 included 99.7% water quality compliance rate, 15027 tons of