Air News Release (HQ): 53 Fortune 500 Corporations Surpass EPA Green Power Goals
News for Release: Monday, January 28, 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) * * *53 Fortune 500 Corporations Surpass EPA Green Power Goals*"" Contact: Dave Ryan, 202-564-4355 / ryan.dave@epa.gov Media actualities (short sound clips):http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/hq_2008-1-28_greenpower (Washington, D.C. - January 28, 2008) In response to EPA's nationwide challenge issued in December 2006, 53 Fortune 500 corporations are now collectively purchasing more than six billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually. These purchases surpassed the goals set by EPA's Green Power Partnership by 130 percent and equal the avoided carbon dioxide emissions of more than 570 million gallons of gasoline each year or the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power nearly 670,000 average American homes annually. "EPA applauds our Fortune 500 partners for protecting our environment by purchasing green power," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson"." "By voluntarily shifting to renewable energy, EPA's environmental partners are proving you don't need to wait for a signal in order to go green." Intel Corporation leads the group as the top buyer with a purchase of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours per year. PepsiCo is second, followed by Wells Fargo & Company, Whole Foods Market, The Pepsi Bottling Group, and Johnson & Johnson. Cisco Systems and Kohl's Department Stores recently made sizable purchase increases to place them at seventh and eighth on the list, respectively. Rounding out the top ten green power purchases are Starbucks and DuPont Company. EPA's Green Power Partnership works with more than 850 partner organizations to buy green power voluntarily as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use and to support the development of new, renewable generation resources nationwide. Overall, EPA Green Power Partners are buying more than 13 billion kWh of green power annually. Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and biogas, as well as low-impact hydropower. Green power resources produce electricity with an environmental profile superior to conventional power technologies and produce no net increase to greenhouse gas emissions. Below is the final ranking of EPA's Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge, listed in descending order of purchase size. *Rank* *Partner Organization* * * *Green Power* *(kilowatt-hours/year)* * * *1* Intel Corporation 1,300,000,000 *2* PepsiCo 1,105,045,154 *3* Wells Fargo & Company 550,000,000 *4* Whole Foods Market 509,104,786 *5* The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. 457,851,838 *6* Johnson & Johnson 400,702,978 *7* Cisco Systems, Inc. 373,500,000 *8* Kohl's Department Stores 236,017,000 *9* Starbucks 185,000,000 *10* DuPont Company 180,063,500 *11* Staples 121,800,000 *12* IBM Corporation 110,103,000 *13* Office Depot 99,529,000 *14* Safeway Inc. 90,000,000 *15* Sprint Nextel 87,600,000 *16* Lowe's 86,000,000 *17* Nike, Inc. 79,820,000 *18* FedEx Kinko's 76,312,000 *19* Citi 56,398,000 *20* Advanced Micro Devices / Austin, TX Facilities 53,518,623 *21* Hewlett-Packard 50,000,000 *22* The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. / Operations 36,000,000 *23 (tie)* Liz Claiborne, Inc. / NJ Corporate Headquarters 25,000,000 *23 (tie)* Lockheed Martin Corporate Headquarters Buildings 25,000,000 *23 (tie)* State Street Corporation 25,000,000 *26* Baxter International Inc. 20,500,000 *27* Applied Materials, Inc. 19,420,000 *28* GE Healthcare / Headquarters 15,816,820 *29* ARAMARK Parks & Resorts 15,455,000 *30* General Motors / Service Parts Operations 14,050,000 *31* Dell, Inc. 12,996,000 *32* Macy's, Inc. West Division 10,400,000 *33* State Farm / Austin Operations Center 9,651,642 *34* Apple Computers / Austin, TX Facilities 9,408,700 *35* The Coca-Cola Company 6,100,000 *36* Oracle Corporation / Austin Facility 5,400,000 *37* United Parcel Service (UPS) / 4 CA Facilities 2,949,545 *38 (tie)* Pitney Bowes 2,500,000 *38 (tie)* Raytheon / Aurora, CO 2,500,000 *40* Roche / Palo Alto & Pleasanton Sites 2,230,997 *41* Lockheed Martin / Palo Alto Facilities 1,800,000 *42 (tie)* Agilent Technologies / Santa Clara location 1,608,000 *42 (tie)* Yahoo! Inc. / Santa Clara Sites 1,608,000 *44* Time Warner Cable - Central Texas 1,500,000 *45* FedEx Express / Oakland Hub Facility 1,172,430 *46* 3M / Austin, TX Facilities 1,144,000 *47* GE Healthcare Technologies - Surgery 840,000 *48* Autoliv / Ogden Facility 711,000 *49* GE Money - Corporate Payment Services 678,000 *50* Monsanto / Agracetus Campus 399,000 *51* John Deere Co. / Dallas, TX Facility 154,333 *52* Lockheed Martin / Plant 1 - Sunnyvale, CA 80,000 *53* GE Energy / Inspection & Repair Services 72,000 Today, EPA also announced an update to its other Top Partner lists, including its National Top 25 list, which includes 11 Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge partners. The U.S. Air Force moved back up to No. 3 nationally. HSBC North America jumped to the 10th spot, by recently increasing its green power purchase to 300 million kilowatt hours per year. New to the National Top 25 list are two Texas cities -- the City of Dallas at No. 9 and the City of Houston at No. 12. For added information on EPA's Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge [ http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/fortune500.htm ] please visit http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/fortune500.htm. For added information on EPA's National Top 25 list of green power purchasers please visit: http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/toplists/top25.htm. R018 Note: If a link above doesn't work, please copy and paste the URL into a browser. View all news releases related to air issues [ http://service.govdelivery.com/service/edition.html?code=USAEPA_16&format=Web&email_type=bulletin ] You can update or cancel your subscription at any time [ https://service.govdelivery.com/service/user.html?code=USAEPA ]. You need only your e-mail address (and your password if you have selected one). This service is provided free of charge by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. If you have any questions or problems about this service, please contact support@govdelivery.com for assistance. 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