Dominion Ranked 11th in '100 Best Corporate Citizens' by Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine
RICHMOND, Va. – Dominion (NYSE:D) is ranked 11th among the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" for 2008 by CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) magazine. The large, publicly owned companies that make up the Russell 1000 Index were ranked based on their efforts and performance in the areas of climate change, employee relations, environment, financial, governance, human rights, lobbying and philanthropy.
Dominion was the second-highest ranked utility, just behind No. 10, PG&E. Dominion was ranked especially high in environment (61st among the 1,000 companies considered) and philanthropy (89th) categories.
"Dominion strives to do business in a way that meets the needs of our customers, communities, shareholders and employees," said Thomas F. Farrell II, Dominion chairman, president and CEO. "This ranking by CRO provides a measurement of our success in achieving that goal."
CRO is the only membership media platform for corporate responsibility practitioners. CRO publishes CRO Magazine, TheCRO.com, bi-weekly e-newsletters, webinars and produces the four-time-annual CRO Conferences. More details regarding the 100 Best Corporate Citizens list are available at www.TheCRO.com.
The top 10 companies are Intel, Eaton Corp., Nike Inc., Deere & Co., Genentech, Corning Inc., Humana, Bank of America, ITT Corp. and PG&E Corp.
Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 26,500 megawatts of generation, 14,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline, 6,000 miles of electric transmission lines and 1.1 trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas and oil reserves. Dominion also owns and operates the nation’s largest underground natural gas storage system with more than 975 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves retail energy customers in 11 states. For more information about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at http://www.dom.com/.
