Any conversation about energy and the environment should address climate change, clean air and clean water. ConocoPhillips is developing and utilizing a wide range of technologies and processes to make its products and operations more environmentally sensitive.
ConocoPhillips is committed to the environment and takes actions to minimize its environmental footprint. Among these are requiring all major capital projects to complete an environmental and social impact assessment, as well as developing a sustainable development plan, before going forward.
ConocoPhillips also works with organizations like the Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on a philanthropic basis to protect wildlife habitats for endangered species such as whooping cranes and sea turtles. Additionally, biologists are employed to help minimize impacts to wildlife. In some sensitive locations such as Alaska, the company maintains sophisticated databases of animal populations and migratory patterns that are shared with certain regulatory and environmental organizations working in the same locations.
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