Ten US companies pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Washington (Platts)--13Jan2004

Ten major US corporations Tuesday voluntarily set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program, EPA said. EPA Administrator Michael Leavitt urged American companies gathered in Washington at a conference on the two-year-old program to aggressively slash their greenhouse emissions, an EPA spokeswoman said. The 10 companies pledging to reduce their greenhouse gas output are 3M, Advanced Micro Devices, American Electric Power, Cinergy Corp., Eastman Kodak, FPL Group, Interface, Inc., International Paper, United Technologies and PSEG. EPA also today made 13 companies -- including 3M, AEP, Caterpillar, Kodak and Xerox -- "partners," which requires them to reduce greenhouse emissions beyond business-as-usual for their respective sectors. Partners must also report emissions of all six greenhouse gases from all major emitting sites and the facilities from which they purchase electricity.