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We are committed to meeting or exceeding environmental compliance requirements by creating environmental awareness, proactively managing environmental risks, promoting more efficient use of resources, encouraging wildlife and habitat conservation, maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, and protecting the land where we operate.
In addition to reducing our emissions (see Energy Efficiency and Emissions) and water consumption (see Water Stewardship) and protecting biodiversity (see Land Management & Biodiversity), we seek to be good neighbors by:
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Protecting Air Quality
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Improving Waste Management
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Reducing Noise Pollution, Vibration and Light
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Limiting Road Congestion
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Community Action Plans
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Protecting Indigenous Communities
Our Environmental Policy establishes a framework by which we set specific goals and objectives to improve our environmental performance, and we regularly evaluate performance to ensure we are operating in alignment with our environmental stewardship objectives through our comprehensive Environmental Management System (EMS).
Our EMS is based on internationally accepted ISO14001 standards, which enables improvements in overall environmental performance by providing 1) enhanced predictability, consistency, and efficiency in managing our environmental obligations; 2) effective targeting and allocation of our environmental management resources; 3) proven frameworks for high impact activities, such as pollution prevention, land management, and water usage; and 4) standardized data collection and reporting mechanisms to effectively measure, monitor, and share progress with our stakeholders.
Contact Covia today at Corporate.Responsibility@CoviaCorp.com.
