Welcome to Rio Tinto Energy America

Welcome to Rio Tinto Energy America's (RTEA) website. I am proud to introduce to you a strong, competitive company, that is made up of talented, hardworking and dedicated employees. RTEA is one of the safest and most efficient energy producers in the world and will continue to be an energy leader through its people, partnerships and process excellence.

Our people remain committed to safety, which continually adds to our success. Employees actively strive to improve their safety performance by viewing safety as the core element of Rio Tinto Energy America's business culture. We believe all accidents are preventable and, in turn, we devote considerable resources to maintaining a safe, accident-free workforce. RTEA continues to develop a high quality workforce by improving capability development, recruiting and performance management.

Rio Tinto Energy America also places a high priority on partnerships with our communities, neighbors and other key stakeholders. We are serious about developing, maintaining, and even bettering our external relationships through the strategies we practice. For example, we support the global initiative to make sustainable development part of our every day activities. We are systematically incorporating sustainable development practices into our daily processes even while we continue our best practice in the environmental area. Our motto is to provide for today and protect for tomorrow. Our sustainable development link contains more information.

RTEA also continues to work to increase acceptance for coal as a fuel source in America. This is vital to our building a sustainable business and to providing affordable, secure energy for this country. While we have already achieved great progress in making coal one of our nation’s cleanest and most reliable energy sources, we understand continued improvement is necessary to make coal even cleaner. We continue to work on environmental issues that will create a clean coal future.

Rio Tinto Energy America continues its quest for process excellence by constantly improving the way it does business. RTEA’s Business Improvement Process (BIP) takes a team approach to business excellence by involving the employees in confronting cost pressures, delivering an economic product, and building a sustainable future. As our mine sites age, we face gradually increasing strip ratios, longer haul distances, difficult geology, increasing capital and operating costs, and a very competitive marketplace. The BIP helps RTEA combat these issues and continually pursues operational improvements, capital productivity and enhanced marketing and sales capabilities.