PHILADELPHIA, May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN)
announced today that it has issued its 2006 Health, Environment and Safety
(HES) Report, marking this as the fifteenth consecutive year that the
Company has publicly reported the results of 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 performance go hand-in-hand with operations
reliability and is a leading indicator of the Company's financial strength.
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The Report provides detailed HES performance data for Sunoco's business
units and individual facilities and this year provides corporate diversity
data. It includes anecdotes that highlight various Company HES activities
including Sunoco's involvement with Community Advisory Panels (CAPs),
reinforces the importance of training for improving HES performance, and
discusses challenges anticipated over the next three to five years.
The Report uses the new Global Reporting Initiative Reporting Framework
Version 3 or G3. Key issues addressed in the report are HES Performance,
which includes environment and worker safety and health; Governance; Energy
Use and Climate Change; Product Stewardship; Security and Business
Continuity; Workforce Preparedness; and Community Engagement.
A detailed version of the 2006 Health, Environment, and Safety Report,
as well as an 18-page summary, is available on Sunoco's Web site,
http://www.sunocoinc.com. Important features of the Web version can be
found by accessing the "How to Use This Report link" located at the upper
right of 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.
Printed copies of the summary are available by contacting Sunoco at:
Telephone: (215) 977-3101
Fax: (215) 246-8001
E-mail: HESReporting@sunocoinc.com
Sunoco, Inc., headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, is a leading
manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products. With
900,000 barrels per day of refining capacity, nearly 4,700 retail sites
selling gasoline and convenience items, approximately 5,500 miles of crude
oil and refined product owned and operated pipelines and 38 product
terminals, Sunoco is one of the largest independent refiner-marketers in
the United States. Sunoco is a significant manufacturer of petrochemicals
with annual sales of approximately five billion pounds, largely chemical
intermediates used to make fibers, plastics, film and resins. Utilizing a
unique, patented technology, Sunoco also has the capacity to manufacture
over 2.5 million tons annually of high- quality metallurgical-grade coke
for use in the steel industry.
SOURCE Sunoco, Inc.
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