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City of Tallahassee Wins Clean Air Excellence Award

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Tallahassee is gaining nationwide recognition for its efforts to improve our city’s environmental awareness and reduce our collective carbon footprint through, among other things, expanded use of green technology.Clipped from www.talgov.comJune 3, 2010
City Wins Federal EPA Award - Out of 124 applicants, the City of Tallahassee’s Environmental Policy and Energy Resources Department (EPER), was honored as one of 14 recipients of The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 10th annual Clean Air Excellence Award. The City was one of two honorees in the Regulatory/Policy Innovations category.
According to the EPA, the winning applicants “…represent achievements in the following categories: clean air technology, education/outreach, regulatory policy, innovation and transportation efficiency.”
Tallahassee’s “Go Green Tallahassee” initiative impressed the EPA, as it combined most of the aforementioned categories into one comprehensive, energy saving and environmentally sustainable initiative. Some of the programs and achievements that led to EPER’s recognition include:

  • Achieving Silver and Gold Certification as a Green City by the Florida Green Building Coalition (the first city in Florida to receive the Gold Certification);
  • Re-powering the Hopkins Electric Plant;
  • Increasing bio-diesel and electric vehicle production in the City’s fleet;
  • Developing citizen-involvement programs, including Think About Personal Pollution (TAPP) and the Neighborhood Energy Challenge;
  • Implementing an environmental management system through the City’s Underground Utilities; and
  • Improving the StarMetro mass transit program.

Tallahassee’s ability to include all departments in the orchestration of alternative energy solutions and its continual focus on decreasing the City’s carbon emissions set an example, not only in numbers, but in community attitude toward eco-friendly living.
The 10th Annual EPA Clean Air Excellence Award Ceremony was held on May 26 in Washington, D.C.
For more information on EPER and the City’s Go Green Tallahassee initiative, please visit Talgov.com. You can also get information and tips for living a greener life by “liking” Go Green Tallahassee on Facebook.
ContactTony Murray, Environmental Policy and Energy Resources, 891-8704; or Bill Behenna, Communications Department, 891-8533Read more at www.talgov.com 

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