2 Pacific Northwest Companies Join Environmental Performance Track

Category: Grants and Awards
Type: News
Source: EPA
Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2003

E.P.A. chooses 37 new members for performance track plan

Administrator Christie Whitman acknowledged 37 new members of the Performance Track program. The plan is a voluntary partnership plan with public and private entities that go beyond compliance with environmental regulations and commit to continual environmental improvement over the next 3 years. Facilities acknowledged in this plan consistently meet their legal requirements, implement environmental management systems, voluntarily achieve environmental enhancements beyond compliance, and report on progress. Launched in June 2000, Performance Track now has quickly grown and now has a total of 304 members.

This round of Performance Track members includes the 1st port facility, the Port of Houston; the 1st jet manufacturer, Dassault Falcon Jet Corp; and the 1st concrete manufacturing facility, Lafarge Alpharetta Ready Mix. E.P.A. also welcomes 7 small businesses, one federal facility and additional facilities from already-represented organizations, such as International Paper, Baxter International Inc., Dupont, Arizona Chemical, Dana Spicer, Lockheed Martin, Sony, Bridgestone-Firestone, Motorola, Pfizer, 3M and NASA. Individual facilities commit to specific environmental improvements, examples of this include: a 64 percent reduction in Volatile Organic Compound emissions by 2005; a 50 percent reduction in water use that will save 20 million gallons per year; and recycling and reduced energy consumption commitments.

New Performance Track Members in the Pacific Northwest are:

Oregon's SunRidge Lumber Co.
Washington's Columbia Vista Corp.;

Other new members around the nation include:

Alabama's Jefferson Co. General Services Division;
Arizona's Motorola GTSS; Arkansas Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Dassault Falcon Jet Corporation
California's Baxter Healthcare Corp., Medication Delivery, and N.A.S.A. Ames Research Center; Colorado's Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation
Florida's Arizona Chemical, and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control;
Georgia's Alpharetta Ready Mix Concrete Plant; Griffin Power Systems-Caterpillar, and Interface Flooring Systems;
Illinois' Airtex Products, Bridgestone, and Firestone Off Road Tire Co.;
Iowa's EMCO Enterprises Inc.;
Kentucky's Dana Spicer Heavy Axle and Brake Division; Maine's International Paper's Bucksport Mill;
Massachusetts' Gillette Andover Manufacturing Center'
Mississippi's Baxter Healthcare;
Nebraska's 3M Valley and Pfizer;
New Jersey's Huntsman Polyurethanes;
Ohio's Johnson Diversey Sharonville Plant, Matsushita Display Devices Company of America, and Pro-Tec Coating Co.;
Texas' Barbours Cut Container Terminal, Inspectorate America,
Louisiana Pacific Oriented Strand Board, Motorola Inc/Ft. Worth, Motorola Inc./Oak Hill, Turning Basin Terminal Central Maintenance Facility;
Virginia's DuPont Front Royal;
Puerto Rico's Baxter Fenwal Division, Baxter Fenwal Division, and Baxter Healthcare Corporation of Puerto Rico.

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