Environmental Sustainability

Rio Tinto Energy America (RTEA) conducts its business in a way that minimizes impacts on the environment by doing more than is required by law to ensure reclamation efforts are successful. Excellence in environmental performance is essential to RTEA’s business success.

Wherever possible RTEA prevents, or otherwise minimizes, mitigates and remediates, harmful effects its mining operations might have on the environment. RTEA assists customers in finding better ways to use coal so all of its benefits are delivered. The company regularly audits, reviews and reports on environmental initiatives to guarantee they are implemented and are effective.

As with safety, it is the responsibility of all employees to conduct operations in a way that protects the quality of the water, air and land in the surrounding environment. Compliance with all environmental laws and regulations is the foundation on which RTEA’s environmental performance is built.