{"id":16803,"date":"2019-05-07T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16803"},"modified":"2019-05-07T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:03:00","slug":"consumers-energys-sustainability-report-focuses-on-triple-bottom-line-commitment-to-people-planet-michigans-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16803","title":{"rendered":"Consumers Energy\u2019s Sustainability Report Focuses on Triple Bottom Line Commitment to People, Planet, Michigan\u2019s Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fmr-date\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-fmr-date-time field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">Friday, May 3, 2019 &#8211; 11:05am<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fmr-meta-container--top\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumersenergy.com\/sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the Consumers Energy 2019 Sustainability Report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"fmr-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-fmr-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>At Consumers Energy, we\u2019re passionate about making life in Michigan better today while keeping an eye on the future \u2013 ensuring this is a great place to live for the generations ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Consumers Energy released our annual Sustainability Report. The report offers insight into our company\u2019s work to serve two-thirds of Michigan\u2019s residents and our Triple Bottom Line commitment to people, the planet and Michigan\u2019s prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers Energy has set ambitious goals to increase Michigan\u2019s clean energy sources and protect our planet for decades to come. By 2040, we plan to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop using coal to generate electricity.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce carbon emissions by more than 90 percent.<\/li>\n<li>And tap renewable sources for more than 40 percent of the electricity we supply to customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAt a time of unprecedented change in the energy industry, we\u2019re uniquely positioned to define what it means to run a clean and lean company,\u201d Patti Poppe, Consumers Energy\u2019s president and CEO, writes in the Sustainability Report. \u201cWhat does that look like as our employees work each day to achieve World Class Performance Delivering Hometown Service? The stories inside this report will give you a peak into the work we\u2019re doing. You\u2019ll find stories about the people who are making a real and positive impact for Michigan by protecting the environment we all cherish and powering economic growth and opportunity for the communities we love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumersenergy.com\/sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.ConsumersEnergy.com\/sustainability&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556890390520000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcpS5aRsBEKvo81A737R3uYAsSXg\">www.ConsumersEnergy.com\/<wbr \/>sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 3, 2019 &#8211; 11:05am&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16804,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions\/16804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}