From Children's Rap Songs to California Ports, EPA Honors Winners of Eighth Annual Clean Air Excellence Awards

Award winners will be accustomed by EPA for their outstanding accomplishments in convalescent air above and abbreviation greenhouse gas emissions at a celebration in Washington, D.C. This year's Clean Air Excellence Award winners' adherence to creating a cleaner tomorrow is absolutely a animation of beginning air From bounded to accompaniment governments, companies to aborigine groups, these award-winners are allowance EPA bear convalescent air and convalescent lives to all Americans.

Washington, DC -- What do two California ports, a aggregation that produced the aboriginal agent electric amalgam tugboat, and an university in Georgia accept in common? All are committed to arete in accomplishing apple-pie air, and tonight they are a allotment of the 11 winners of the eighth anniversary Clean Air Excellence Awards. This year's accolade winners will be accustomed by EPA for their outstanding accomplishments in convalescent air above and abbreviation greenhouse gas emissions at a celebration in Washington, D.C.

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"This year's Clean Air Excellence Award winners' adherence to creating a cleaner tomorrow is absolutely a animation of beginning air," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "From bounded to accompaniment governments, companies to aborigine groups, these award-winners are allowance EPA bear convalescent air and convalescent lives to all Americans."

The Clean Air Excellence Awards admit and account outstanding, avant-garde efforts that accomplish advance in accomplishing cleaner air. The awards were accustomed in 2000, at the advocacy of the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC), a senior-level action accumulation that advises EPA on implementing the Clean Air Act.

There are four categories of awards: apple-pie air technology, association action, education/outreach, and authoritative action innovations, with one added appropriate accolade for alone achievement.

This year's winners:

Clean Air Technology
Foss Hybrid Tugboat, Foss Maritime Company alien the aboriginal amalgam tugboat that uses a agent engine and batteries to run added efficiently.

Use of Catalytic Materials for Improved Operation in Abatements of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in the Semiconductor Industry, Texas Instruments, Texas, and Matros Technologies, Missouri.

Community Action
Project Green Fleet, The Minnesota Environmental Initiative bargain children's acknowledgment to academy bus agent emissions by retrofitting hundreds of busses.

Northern Wood Power Project, Public Services of New Hampshire bargain atramentous burning and air emissions by alteration a coal-burning boiler for a wood-burning boiler.

Education/Outreach
Life is a Breath of Fresh Air, Alabama, Auntie Litter, Inc. has accomplished the association on the adverse accoutrement of low-level blast and atom abuse through youth-targeted outreach, such as children's rap music and skits.

Spare the Air in Greenville County, South Carolina, Greenville County's apprenticeship beat has implemented a attack to advance air above through assorted media outlets, such as accessible presentations and booths at festivals.

Drive Clean Across Texas Campaign, Texas Department of Transportation & Texas Commission on Environmental Quality promotes improvements in air above through behavioral changes of drivers.

Georgia Radon Education Program, The University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences prevents radon-induced lung blight through education, testing, and the abridgement of radon in calm air.

Regulatory/Policy Innovations
Gila River Indian Community Air Quality Management Plan, Arizona, The Gila River Indian Community Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Program Team is the aboriginal association in the U.S. to advance a multi-program Air Quality Management Plan to adapt air quality.

San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, California, The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles accept created a five-year action plan that outlines strategies to abate air emissions and associated bloom risks from port-related sources.

Thomas W. Zosel Outstanding Individual Achievement Award
Dr. Joseph T. Ling, Dr. Ling is accepting acclaimed for his holistic access to ecology management.

For added advice about this year's awards ceremony, visit: http://www.epa.gov/air/caaac/recipients.html

Clean Retains Sustainable East Coast Biz, Adding Spin Master and NewPage Corp.

For NewPage Corporation, North America’s arch architect of coated paper, Clean has launched www.papertellsastory.com, an informative, behavior-changing attack creating acquaintance about issues of affair surrounding alien coated cardboard from locations of Asia.

South Pasadena, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 20, 2008 -- Clean, a close specializing in acceptable business strategies for companies with able commitments to accumulated amusing albatross and the environment, afresh added Canadian-based Spin Master and NewPage Corporation (Ohio) to its agenda of eco-conscious clients.

We’re advancing into a new era – an era of alertness a allotment of business leaders with the ability to accomplish a absolute difference. And while abounding HR departments are antagonism to install ecology managers to their controlling team, those controlling teams are still accepting the a lot of absolute advice from specialists Building amusing agreeable has become analytical in creating buzz a allotment of next gen account seekers traditional beat is Jurassic, to be acknowledged at our jobs we charge to accomplish it easier for humans to absolutely ascertain new brands and companies on their own. Consumers everywhere are added acquainted of the impacts purchasing decisions apply on the ambiance and their family. Discerning shoppers, decidedly parents, are added acceptable to authorize casting adherence with those who consistently accept consumers’ best interests in mind. “We’re advancing into a new era – an era of alertness a allotment of business leaders with the ability to accomplish a absolute difference. And while abounding HR departments are antagonism to install ecology managers to their controlling team, those controlling teams are still accepting the a lot of absolute advice from specialists,” said Seri McClendon, CEO of Clean.

For NewPage Corporation, North America’s arch architect of coated paper, Clean has launched www.papertellsastory.com, an informative, behavior-changing attack creating acquaintance about issues of affair surrounding alien coated cardboard from locations of Asia.

Elements of the attack cover book and agenda advertising, a able-bodied alternate website with banderole blogging and a podcast advantaged “On Paper” exploring capacity accompanying to accumulated sustainability. To date, the attack has garnered added than 1.5 actor beat impressions, with added than 54,000 different visits to www.papertellsastory.com and added than a thousand humans a anniversary downloading episodes of the “On Paper” podcast from iTunes.

“Building amusing agreeable has become analytical in creating buzz a allotment of next gen account seekers,“ said Kathy Kniss, Director of Public Relations for Clean, adding, “traditional beat is Jurassic, to be acknowledged at our jobs we charge to accomplish it easier for humans to absolutely ascertain new brands and companies on their own. ”

And for audience like Spin Master, the fifth better toy architect in the world, Clean is alive to administer acceptable solutions to acceptable packaging frequently begin on retail abundance shelves internationally. Materials sourcing and specifying, packaging forms and accomplishment systems all clarify into the Clean packaging process.

Clean weighs the success of its solutions application a array of accurate parameters, from banker initiatives such as the Wal-Mart Packaging Scorecard to a client’s centralized sales, business and accomplishment goals. Clean ally with all-around chump artefact companies to bigger affiliate our clients’ operational absoluteness with their stakeholders’ expectations.

“Consumers everywhere are added acquainted of the impacts purchasing decisions apply on the ambiance and their family. Discerning shoppers, decidedly parents, are added acceptable to authorize casting adherence with those who consistently accept consumers’ best interests in mind.” said Christopher Kahl, Creative Director for Clean.

About Clean
Established in 2001, and based in South Pasadena, CA, Clean is a non-traditional agency specializing in acceptable business strategies from accumulation alternation appraisal to chip marketing. Clean develops customized solutions for nationally accustomed brands and avant-garde ambitious companies, enabling them to advance their bread-and-butter and ecology achievement at the aforementioned time.

Clean believes that sustainability is incremental, and that baby changes can go a continued way against convalescent your company’s amateur basal line. Clean is the new green. Visit www.cleanagency.com or alarm (323) 255-9178.

CONTACT: Kathy Kniss, Kathy @ cleanagency.com, (323) 255-9178 x17