Corporations Honored for Climate, Ozone Protection
Environment News Service, May, 2005 by staff
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> Several of America's largest corporations, two cities and three individuals were honored Wednesday for their efforts to protect the Earth's climate and stratospheric ozone layer.
American Electric Power, 3M, Cinergy, the California Energy Commission, and the cities of Boulder, Colorado, and Syracuse, New York, are among the 25 organizations, companies, individuals, and teams recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for "ingenuity, leadership and public purpose by achieving reductions of ozone depleting and heat-trapping gas emissions."
The Earth's annual ozone hole over Antarctica is caused by the human emission of refrigerant gases and other chlorinated and brominated gases. (Photo courtesy NASA) The winners have...
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