National Grid scored a 100 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, National Grid increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. National Grid forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. National Grid provides unconscious bias training to all its employees. The company supports the Equality Act and joined eight other energy companies in campaigning the federal courts to overturn Trump-era carbon emissions policy. National Grid is a Ceres Network Member and a Climate Action 100+ member, committed to carbon neutrality by 2040. According to its Responsible Business Charter, it is committed to carbon neutrality by 2050. National Grid's CEO, John Pettigrew, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. The company has donated to the Q Center, which includes services for "gender-expansive youth" and sponsored various LGBTQ Pride parades, marches, and events. The company is a brass sponsor of Out & Equal and has donated $10,000 to LGBTQ programs across New York. National Grid has also made contributions to several other LGBTQ organizations including Camp Beyond Binary, an LGBTQ youth camp. The company sponsored events hosted by the National Urban League and sponsored the New York Urban League's "Diversity and Inclusion Lab". For these reasons, National Grid receives a High Risk rating.