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Jay Apperson
\njay.apperson@maryland.gov<\/p>\n
Adrienne Diaczok
\nadrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov<\/p>\n
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Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards Winners Honored\u00a0<\/strong> BALTIMORE, MD (June 29, 2018<\/span><\/span>)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles joined members of the Maryland Green Registry and One Montgomery Green yesterday evening to present the\u00a09th Annual Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards and announce the annual membership results. Those results showed continued gains in reducing pollution, along with savings of more than $107 million through environmental practices.<\/span><\/p>\n The Leadership Award winners are:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0City of Bowie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Johns Hopkins University<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Pearlstone Center<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Volvo Group Trucks<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Winners were chosen based on their commitment to continuous improvement and environmental results achieved over the past year. The awards were presented at the One Montgomery Green Green Gala at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton. More information on each winner\u2019s achievements are detailed on the\u00a0Maryland Green Registry website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Also announced at the event was a new form of recognition called the Maryland Green Registry Leadership Circle. This one-year designation is for former Leadership Award Winners that apply for recognition by demonstrating their continued commitment to improvement through significant new sustainable practices and results.\u00a0 The inaugural members of the Leadership Circle are\u00a0AstraZeneca MedImmune\u00a0(Gaithersburg site),\u00a0Fitzgerald Auto Malls,\u00a0Hub Labels\u00a0and\u00a0Washington Gas.<\/span><\/p>\n MORE INFORMATION:<\/span><\/p>\n The Maryland Green Registry was created to promote and recognize sustainable practices by organizations throughout the state. The free program offers tips and resources to help organizations set and meet their own goals on the path to sustainability. There are currently\u00a0more than 520\u00a0member organizations<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n As part of their online member profile, Maryland Green Registry members share at least one quantitative measurement.\u00a0The results are collected\u00a0to demonstrate that even small efforts among a group of committed organizations can lead to impressive results.\u00a0The results also emphasize the importance of measurement to the successful management of environmental impacts at any type and size of organization.\u00a0Registry members are currently saving more than $107 million annually through their sustainable practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While they represent a variety of facility types and sizes, all of the winners have several key factors in common that contributed to their success: each organization has an organization-wide commitment to environmental performance and each sets annual environmental goals and measures its results.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0The following results were achieved on an annual basis between 2017 and 2018:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n View infographic<\/a> of annual results <\/span><\/p>\n QUOTES:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe organizations we are honoring are true leaders in showing the way toward an environmentally sustainable future and a thriving economy in Maryland. The two go hand in hand \u2013 shown by the more than $107 million in annual savings for Green Registry members.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n —\u00a0Ben Grumbles, Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment<\/span><\/p>\n ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:<\/span><\/p>\n Maryland Green Registry<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Leadership Winner Profiles<\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Infographic of Maryland Green Registry Annual Results<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n One Montgomery Green<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n PHOTOS:<\/span><\/p>\n View photos of the Maryland Green Registry awards on the\u00a0Registry\u2019s Flickr page<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ###\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Media Contacts: Jay Apperson jay.apperson@maryland.gov Adrienne Diaczok adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards Winners Honored\u00a0Members report $107.9 million in savings through environmental practices BALTIMORE, MD (June 29, 2018)\u00a0\u2013 Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles joined members of the Maryland Green Registry and One Montgomery Green yesterday evening to present the\u00a09th Annual Maryland Green Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryland-green-registry","category-secretary-grumbles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Members report $107.9 million in savings through environmental practices<\/span><\/p>\n\n