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EPA Administrator Whitman Meets With New England Performance Track Companies

Release Date: 07/31/2001
Contact Information: Andrew Spejewski, Press Office, (617) 918-1014

BOSTON -- New England participants in EPA's National Environmental Performance Track program met yesterday with Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Robert Varney, the newly sworn-in Regional Administrator for EPA's New England office.

EPA's Performance Track program recognizes facilities that have demonstrated a commitment to superior environmental performance and have a good record of compliance with environmental regulations. Currently, 30 New England facilities have been accepted by EPA as members of Performance Track.

The meeting was designed to discuss ideas for encouraging energy efficiency improvements among businesses participating in voluntary EPA programs, using the Performance Track facilities' leadership in implementing programs to reduce their energy footprint, and in publicly reporting on the innovative programs they have implemented. Representatives of 15 Performance Track facilities met with EPA staff, Governor Whitman, and Regional Administrator Varney.

Gov.Whitman thanked the facilities for their leadership and commitment to work to go beyond compliance with environmental laws and regulations. She noted that voluntary methods to achieve higher levels of environmental performance are the kinds of approaches that she and the President support. Regional Administrator Varney remarked upon the importance of partnering with the regulated community to achieve progress that goes beyond that which would be achieved through regulation and enforcement alone.

The facilities represented at the meeting were: Acushnet Rubber Company, Inc., New Bedford, MA; Clairol Worldwide, Stamford, CT; IBM, Burlington, VT; Heidelberg Web Systems, Dover, NH; Interface Fabrics Corporation/Guilford of Maine, Guilford, ME; International Paper, Androscoggin Mill, Jay, ME; New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Peterborough, NH; Spalding Sports, Chicopee, MA; Teradyne, Inc., North Reading, MA; Texas Instruments, Attleboro, MA; Unilever, HPC, Clinton, CT; U.S. Coast Guard, Air Station Cape Cod, Cape Cod, MA; and three U.S. Postal Service facilities -- Hartford Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Hartford, CT, Hartford Processing and Distribution Center, Hartford, CT, and Portland Processing and Distribution Center, Portland, ME

New England facilities that were not able to attend the meeting but which are members of the National Environmental Performance Track are: Heating Oil Partners/DDLC Fuels,Danielson and New London, CT; J&J Medical, Southington, CT; The Torrington Company, Watertown, CT; Beacon Skanska, Boston, MA; DePuy Orthopaedics, New Bedford, MA; DePuy Orthopaedics, Raynham, MA; Mitek East/Ethicon, Norwood, MA; PerkinElmer Optoelectronics, Salem, MA; Shipley Company, Marlborough, MA; Snap-On Tools, Natick, MA; USGen New England (multiple small hydro facilities in MA, NH and VT); DMC Electronics, Newfields, NH; Loctite, Seabrook, NH; BAE Systems -- Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Inc., Nashua, Hudson, Litchfield, Londonderry, Merrimack, and Milford, NH.