• Company Profile
  • Letter from our CEO
  • Our Operations
• the Place to Work
  • Employees
    • Learning & Development
    • Culture of Health
    • Compensation Programs
    • Workforce Development
  • Safety
  • Ethics
• The Neighbor to Have
  • Community
    • Giving Strategy
    • Charitable Contributions
    • Volunteer Outreach
  • Political Accountability
    • Political Action Committee
    • Corp. Political Contributions
    • Trade Assoc. Memberships
  • Environment
    • Leadership Oversight
    • Our Environmental Impacts
    • Operations & the Environment
    • Environmental Remediation
• The Company to Own
  • Shareholders
    • Operational & Financial Results
  • Governance
    • Commitment to Governance
    • Board of Directors
    • Management Team
• Resources
  • GRI References
  • End Notes
  • Cautionary Statement

Across our operations, El Paso is committed to protecting the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, contractors, and the public. Toward that end, our leadership team provides oversight and direction for our environmental strategies and practices. We track and report our impacts to the environment. We also conduct our existing operations and develop new projects to meet the highest environmental standards, and use best practices in environmental remediation to clean up and revitalize legacy assets and sites.

In 2010, our Pipeline Group continued the largest buildout of pipeline expansions in our company’s history. As part of that effort, we began construction on our Ruby Pipeline, which will connect clean-burning and competitively priced natural gas reserves in the Rocky Mountain region with growing markets in the western United States. We expect Ruby Pipeline, which will be the first interstate natural gas pipeline in U.S. history to be carbon-neutral for construction and operations-related GHG emissions, to be in service during the summer of 2011.

El Paso’s E&P Company continued to grow both production and reserves in an environmentally responsible manner. At the same time, E&P is increasing our presence in the unconventional resource plays that are helping reshape natural gas supply, providing long-term, abundant, domestic supplies for future generations and dramatically reducing our reliance on foreign sources of energy.

Leadership Oversight

From our Board of Directors to our employees, our team is actively engaged in leading our environmental, health, and safety performance, practices, and policies, including climate change policies and practices.

Board Commitment

The HS&E Committee of our Board of Directors consists of four independent members of our Board who review and provide oversight of our environmental policies, standards, accountabilities, and programs, including the company’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory and reduction program. The HS&E Committee advises the Board of Directors and makes recommendations to the Board on issues related to the environment, including GHG issues. For more information about El Paso’s Board HS&E Committee, including its charter and a list of its members, please visit our Web site’s Investor Relations section.

Executive Commitment

In addition to the Board HS&E Committee, El Paso has an Environmental, Health, and Safety (EH&S) executive team that provides oversight of environmental matters, including climate-related issues. This team is made up of seven members of El Paso’s senior management. Also at the executive level, senior vice presidents of Operations from our Pipeline Group and E&P Company provide oversight of our HS&E compliance policies and programs. In addition, both our Pipeline Group and our E&P Company have senior leadership steering committees that direct HS&E activities established within each business unit.