EPA Honors Mack Trucks in Greensboro, NC for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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February 25, 2014

ATLANTA – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Center for Corporate Climate Leadership announced the third annual Climate Leadership Award winners in partnership with the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR). Nationally, nineteen awards were given to 15 organizations and two individuals in the public and private sectors for their leadership in addressing climate change by reducing carbon pollution.

Mack Trucks received the Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management—Goal Achievement Award for:

• Establishing its second goal under EPA’s former Climate Leaders program in 2008 by pledging to achieve a 12 percent intensity reduction (per unit produced) from 2007 to 2012.

• Achieving and exceeding its goal a year early by reducing GHG intensity by 43.2 percent, equivalent to an absolute reduction of 17.4 percent.

• Achieving its most recent goal by implementing a comprehensive lighting mitigation strategy for its manufacturing plants and office areas, utilizing building automation systems, and by replacing fuel oil-fired boilers with high efficiency natural gas-fired hot water heaters, reducing natural gas usage by 43 percent.

Mack Trucks’ current goal was preceded by its first goal achievement—a 32 percent decrease in GHG intensity per unit produced from 2003 to 2007.

The national awards program recognizes and incentivizes exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change. Award recipients represent a wide array of industries, including finance, manufacturing, retail, technology, higher education and local government.

The President’s Climate Action Plan calls on the federal government to work with all stakeholders to take action to cut the harmful carbon pollution that fuels climate change. These organizations and individuals are working to do just that.

The awards are held in conjunction with the 2014 Climate Leadership Conference at the Hyatt Mission Bay Hotel in San Diego, Calif.

More information about the 2014 Climate Leadership Award winners is available at www.epa.gov/climateleadership/awards/2014winners.html

Source: Mack Trucks, EPA’s Center for Corporate Climate Leadership: www.epa.gov/climateleadership

Image Source: Mack Trucks received recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for excellence in greenhouse gas management. Mack reduced greenhouse gas intensity per unit produced by more than 43 percent over a five-year period, exceeding its 12 percent reduction target.