Better Health for All

Sempra's Cameron LNG facility has been linked to significant health costs, including 5,000 asthma cases and 245 lost workdays, resulting from 67 accidental releases since 2020.

This indicates severe negative health externalities and a catastrophic safety record. Additionally, a federal court revoked a crucial permit for Sempra's LNG project in Port Arthur, Texas, due to pollution concerns affecting predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods. While the company's foundations and subsidiaries have supported initiatives such as allocating over $1.6 million for solar energy installations in care centers and clinics in Mexico , donating $1.1 million for cleaner cookstoves to over 40,000 people in Indigenous communities , and providing 300 air purifiers to children with asthma , these efforts appear inadequate to remediate the major health impacts from its core LNG operations. The company's core business is energy infrastructure, and its products do not have addiction potential, nor does it engage in clinical trials, pharmaceutical patents, or food production.

Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

Sempra Energy is an energy infrastructure company that provides electric and gas services, not financial services such as lending, deposits, or insurance. The 'Fair Money & Economic Opportunity' value specifically assesses activities related to these financial services. Therefore, all KPIs, including underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives (loan/insurance book), data accessibility (customer finance data), fair lending compliance, wealth building outcomes from financial products, financial literacy initiatives, customer debt burden, geographic inclusion (financial service access points), and product simplicity (financial products), are not applicable to Sempra's core business. Although Sempra's subsidiary, SoCalGas, spent over $1 billion, representing 44% of total procurement, with 618 diverse firms, this supplier diversity initiative does not align with the specific definition of 'inclusion initiatives' which refers to a loan/insurance book.

Similarly, philanthropic grants from the Sempra Foundation, while supporting underserved communities, are not quantified as a percentage of profit reinvested in community finance, nor do they directly relate to the other financial service KPIs.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

Sempra's Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) was 0.5 in 2023, which is below the industry average of 1.5.

In 2022, the company invested over $50 million in operational safety initiatives. Additionally, SDG&E's Kearny Mesa facility, a subsidiary, achieved CAL/OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) certification, becoming the first utility in California to receive this honor for its safety practices.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

Sempra was named to 3BL Media's '100 Best Corporate Citizens' list in 2023 for its ESG performance and commitment to transparency and ethical sourcing.

In 2022, Sempra subsidiaries invested $2.4 billion with diverse suppliers. However, the provided articles do not contain specific quantitative data points, such as percentages of spend on fair-trade certified inputs, audit frequencies, number of labour incidents, traceability coverage, remediation times, ethical clause coverage, or the total procurement budget needed to calculate the percentage of spend with diverse suppliers, to score against the defined KPIs.

Honest & Fair Business

Sempra achieved a score of 94% on the CPA-Zicklin Index for political disclosure and accountability.

The company incurred a nearly $10 million fine from the California Public Utilities Commission in February 2026 for unlawful lobbying. Sempra has a comprehensive Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy, which applies to all employees and third parties. All employees receive annual ethics and compliance training, with additional periodic training for high-risk roles. An anti-corruption monitoring system tracks third-party transactions, and no incidents of corruption or bribery were identified in 2022. Sempra operates a 24/7 anonymous Ethics & Compliance Helpline for all stakeholders. In 2022, 460 reports were made, with 53% anonymously and 16% substantiated.

Kind to Animals

Sempra Energy demonstrates significant wildlife conservation efforts, having protected over 470,000 acres of land since 2021.

Its subsidiary, SDG&E, protects more than 40 endangered and threatened species across a 2.6 million-acre service area under a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) amended in 2023 , and in 2020, its activities resulted in no documented 'take' of any state or federally listed species. Sempra Infrastructure is actively rebuilding over 1,200 acres of marshland along the Gulf Coast and has successfully relocated over 80,000 specimens from 58 species. The company invested $6.6 million in climate action activities in 2021, including donations for prairie and wetland restoration. In terms of public policy, Sempra engages with government agencies and NGOs on habitat conservation and endangered species regulations , with SDG&E voluntarily developing an HCP in 1995, a first for a California utility. Sempra has also been recognized for civic transparency in public policy engagement. However, the company has incurred over $133 million in penalties for 29 environment-related offenses since 2000.

No War, No Weapons

Sempra U.S. Gas & Power partnered with the U.S. Navy to construct a 210-megawatt solar facility in Arizona

, which supplies energy to 14 Navy installations .

Planet-Friendly Business

Sempra Infrastructure Foundation invested over $1.6 million to install solar heaters, solar panels, and backup batteries in Mexican community facilities, such as care centers and health clinics.

This initiative aims to provide reliable electricity access and promote renewable energy adoption.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

Sempra Energy constructed the Agua Prieta Pipeline through the Rio Yaqui, a sacred site for the Yaqui people, despite their opposition

. This action led to violent confrontations and allegations of territorial sovereignty violations . The company proceeded with the project, indicating a lack of effective cultural impact assessment protocol and a failure to secure free, prior, and informed consent from the affected community . This also represents a significant incident disrupting a cultural heritage site and suggests a systematic dismissal of cultural concerns. For this operation, the company did not possess a social license to operate from the community.

Safe & Smart Tech

Sempra Energy has established an Ethics Review Board to ensure responsible AI deployment, prioritizing transparency and accountability.

The company conducts periodic communications and mandatory training to promote cybersecurity awareness among its employees through security awareness programs. Furthermore, Sempra's privacy policy outlines data collection and use, with an aim to protect information confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and no incidents of unauthorized data use are documented.