Additional Metrics and Data Our Sustainability Scorecard highlights the key metrics and milestones we track regarding the company’s priorities and stakeholder materiality. The Supplemental Sustainability Data includes more detail, including historical measurements, on additional sustainability metrics commonly tracked and requested by individual stakeholders. These supporting materials and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Table are available at NiSource.com/Sustainability. volunteered more than 12,000 hours as part of this program. Across our company, we’re proud to have been recognized as strong community partners and places to work. Twenty seventeen highlights include: Maintained Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) status – Not only did we maintain our status for the fourth consecutive year, we ranked as the second-highest-scoring multiutility on the list and saw improvement in all three dimensions scored by DJSI: Economic, Environmental and Social. Named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality – For the first time, we received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2018 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) workplace equality. Among the world’s Top 100 Energy Leaders – As one of Thomson Reuters’ Top 100 Global Energy Leaders, we hit the mark in eight key pillars, ranging from sustainability and commitment to cultivating diversity and maintaining a healthy and safe workplace to more traditional measures of success, such as financial performance and investor confidence. Named top utility in Forbes ranking of America’s Best Large Employers – In our second year appearing on the list, we achieved the top spot among utilities and 61st in the full list of 500. To compile the list, Forbes conducted an independent and anonymous online survey of nearly 30,000 workers at companies with at least 1,000 employees in their U.S. operations. Received the inaugural ‘Excellence in Women’s Development’ award at the annual Midwest ENERGY Association’s (MEA) Energetic Women Conference. This award was created to recognize companies in the utility industry that show leadership and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Named a World’s Most Ethical Company for sixth consecutive year – We were one of 124 companies from 19 countries honored for leadership in ethical business standards. This recognition honors companies that lead with integrity and align principle with action. We’re proud to share that we’ve also made this list again in 2018. Named to the FTSE4Good Index – Created by the global index provider FTSE Russell, the FTSE4Good Index Series is designed to measure the performance of companies demonstrating strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.