We’re embracing environmental challenges as opportunities to make our communities stronger.
We’re partnering with our communities to protect and restore coastlines, forests and wildlife habitat. We accomplish this through volunteerism and our Environmental Initiatives Fund. In 2025, our shareholders contributed $1 million to partnering organizations through the fund. This was the 25th consecutive year that owners supported the fund, with a total investment of $44.8 million since the program launched in 2001.
View the 2025 grant award recipients of Entergy’s Environmental Initiatives Fund. To submit an environmental improvement project for consideration of funding through Entergy’s Environmental Initiatives Fund, view the timing details in the most recent request for proposals.
Protecting our natural resources
Entergy partners with community organizations to support wetlands restoration and reforestation. We’ve recently exceeded our five-year goals for these initiatives, resulting in more than 337,000 trees planted or distributed and more than 17,700 hours of environmental volunteer service provided by employees.
Since 2018, Entergy has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to provide free trees to customers. Customers receive their trees with planting instructions for optimizing energy benefits and avoiding Entergy equipment like overhead lines. The partnership provides long-term benefits for our communities.
Grassroots sustainability champions
Our employees lead the way in Entergy’s environmental advocacy in many ways, including through the Grassroots Sustainability Champions program. The team has grown to more than 150 Entergy employees since it launched in 2022. They work to enrich the communities Entergy serves by engaging fellow employees in environmental and social initiatives and raising awareness and impact of the company’s sustainability objectives. Champions leverage their peer networks and work groups to build support and increase participation in these important efforts.
In 2025, the Grassroots Sustainability Champions initiated companywide challenges to reduce single-use plastics and hosting a sock and blanket drive for a local charity. To further raise awareness and impact, the team creates helpful resources for employees identifying sustainable and eco-friendly actions for the return to office work stance, such as external recycling resources available in all of Entergy’s jurisdictions, and sustainable holiday shopping and planning.
Biodiversity
We invest in the critical foundations of our communities to create thriving places to call home, now and for future generations.
Entergy works to fully comply with all environmental regulations including those that govern wildlife conservation, as stated in our biodiversity framework.
The framework outlines our strategy to support, conserve and restore biodiversity habitat, wetlands and local natural resources.
Since 2011, we maintain a more avian-friendly environment by retrofitting older distribution lines that have documented avian impacts, implementing new distribution avian construction standards and replacing insulators on transmission structures. Read more in our avian wildlife protection standard.
Recycling and investment recovery
Entergy maintains a standard that outlines our philosophy and expectations for waste management and minimization. We reduce waste through our commodity recycling and investment recovery process. Our procurement and supply chain team works to recycle and recover the value of materials that otherwise might end up in landfills. We also sell surplus assets and return the proceeds to our utility operating companies. This benefits customers by offsetting operations costs that are included in our customer rates.
Water management
As we add more efficient and renewable generation resources, we reduce our water use. We maintain a compliance rate with state and federal permit requirements of at least 99.9% from year to year. The 2025 water compliance rate was 99.95%. Read an overview of our water management strategy and our water management standard.
Two of our plants operate in water-stressed areas. Since 2016, our Lewis Creek Power Plant has exceeded a water conservation goal of 30%, and the neighboring Montgomery County Power Station employs cooling towers and a closed-loop cooling reservoir to decrease water usage.