Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group ranked 300th on a list of America’s 500 largest corporations exhibiting the best green practices by Newsweek magazine. The list, a first for Newsweek, evaluated companies’ “actual environmental performance, policies and reputation.” Shaw’s overall score was 69.03, while its environmental impact score was 57.3. It scored a 29.23 for green policies and performance and a 37.32 for its reputation survey score. Shaw did substantially better in the rankings when compared to other industry giants, ranking 21st in general industrials.
Dow Chemical made the overall list at 143 and was fifth on the industry sector ranking for basic materials. ExxonMobil ranked at 395 overall and 26th in the oil and gas industry. Entergy was 23rd in the utilities category and 462nd overall.
Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Enterprises also made the list at 36th and 58th overall, respectively, and 2nd and 1st in the food and beverage category.
Eco-friendly Whole Foods (67th) actually ranked lower on the list than corporate behemoth Wal-Mart (59th). The top five companies overall were Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Intel and IBM. KLD Research & Analytics, an environmental research firm, Trucost and CorporateRegister.com helped rank the companies. To read the full list, click here. To read the story at Newsweek, click here.
