Environmental Policy & Compliance

Our corporate environmental policy

Alliant Energy is committed to a clean, safe and healthy environment. Caring for the environment is one of our core values, and we will strive for continuous improvement in our environmental performance.

Through our environmental programs, and based on sound scientific principles, we will manage air, land, water and wildlife resources and conduct our business in an environmentally sensitive and responsible manner.

With our employees working together, these actions will benefit customers, shareowners, employees and the communities we serve by protecting and improving the quality of the environment in which we live.

Environmental Progress Report

This report discusses how our policies and actions impact the environment. It also provides measurements of our performance over time. Not all measurements reflect improvements or decreasing environmental impacts, but Alliant Energy continues to report our results, and uses these to drive improvements in environmental performance and decision-making throughout our company.

Environmental Progress Report [PDF] – posted 09/19/07

Previous issue:

Environmental Progress Report [PDF] – posted 08/31/06

Low-resolution files have been posted to shorten downloading time. To obtain a printed copy of the Environmental Progress Report, send an e-mail to: MarthaPaskey@alliantenergy.com.

Committed to regulatory compliance

Alliant Energy is committed to compliance with all environmental laws and regulations. Our assessment program reviews our conformance to environmental regulations and to our company’s environmental and safety policies and procedures.

The results of the assessments and the resolution of the issues are discussed with facility managers and site personnel. An environmental performance measure reflecting assessment item resolution rates are tracked at the highest levels of the company.

The importance of environmental compliance is further reflected in our compensation programs, which contain components for goals relating to environmental, health and safety matters.

Alliant Energy provides transparency on environmental issues to the public through Securities and Exchange Commission filings that disclose all environmental liabilities considered to be important or “material” to an investor.

These disclosed environmental liabilities include material financial impacts of current and emerging environmental regulations, remediation activities, sanctions from regulatory agencies, and legal proceedings.

Alliant Energy has an internal environmental risk mitigation process. Through this process we identify and manage environmental risk from current regulatory requirements and emerging issues that have potential to impact the business plans of the company.

Our process ensures that cost-effective compliance is achieved and identifies issues of strategic relevance for advocacy with regulatory agencies and other stakeholders.

Minnesota Environmental Disclosure [PDF]