**JULY 2008 SCORECARD**

**SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS**

-   PLEASE NOTE: Only PROGRESS Scores are updated for the July
    assessment. STATUS remains the same as it is only updated in January
    of each year based on end-of-year reporting by agencies.

-   ENERGY SCORECARD: 19 of 22 agencies achieved GREEN on Progress.\
    \-\--DHS and Justice both improved from YELLOW to GREEN for this
    rating period.\
    \-\--Energy and Transportation are YELLOW\
    \-\--Smithsonian was not yet scored as this is its first rating
    period for the Energy Scorecard (per its request)\
    \-\--NO RED AGENCIES

-   TRANSPORTATION SCORECARD: 17 of the 21 agencies scored GREEN on
    Progress.  Other 4 are YELLOW\
    \-\--HHS and Court Services improved from RED to YELLOW\
    \-\--DHS and GSA remained YELLOW on progress\
    \-\--NO RED AGENCIES.

-   ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: 14 of 24 agencies achieved GREEN on
    Progress; 4 agencies remain RED and 5 others are YELLOW.\
    \-\--DOT, NARA, SSA & Smithsonian are still RED\
    \-\--Education & Interior improved from RED to YELLOW\
    \-\--State & DOD went down from GREEN to YELLOW\
    \-\--GSA remains YELLOW\
    \-\--USPS was not scored as it did not submit a progress report.

AGENCY SPECIFIC HIGHLIGHTS:

TRANSPORTATION SCORECARD:

-   The Department of Labor utilized the Automobile Use Tracking On-Line
    System (AUTOS) to manage its Transportation/Fleet initiatives,
    monitor and evaluate compliance and **achieve green** on the
    scorecard. Several other agencies are now interested in adopting
    DOL's system and said they hope to use AUTOS to identify alt fuel
    stations and track other data that will improve their ability to
    achieve results.

 

-   DOE, EPA and USPS all conducted site visits during the last six
    months to their agency facilities to improve compliance efforts.

ENERGY SCORECARD:

-   The Department of Justice awarded ESPCs for projects at three
    prisons totaling \$22 million in energy efficiency investments. It
    is planning to award another \$5 million in energy investment
    projects between now and December 2008 and already has \$68 million
    under development using ESPC.

-   EPA launched ConservW, a new water conservation program in
    April 2008. Individual facility water reduction targets were
    established and EPA initiated portfolio-wide water conservation
    actions and funded multiple facility-specific water conservation
    projects.

-   VA completed energy assessments for 111 facilities in 7 regions
    (approx. 30% of VA facilities); hired 15 additional facility energy
    managers (total 87) and appointed 21 interim regional energy
    managers to improve its energy efficiency efforts.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP:

-   Almost every agency was compliant in developing and submitting its
    chemicals management plan to the Office of the Federal Environmental
    Executive (OFEE).

-   The Department of Commerce developed a pilot program to ensure that
    Energy Star features are enabled on all of its monitors and
    computers in compliance with the Electronic Stewardship goal.

-   VA conducted sustainability assessments of all of its facilities
    above 50,000 sq. ft. (covering more than a million square feet); and
    in FY 2008, more than 99% of computers ordered by VA were EPEAT Gold
    and more than 99% of monitors ordered were EPEAT Silver.

-   NASA updated its Green Purchasing Plan (GPP) to include a preference
    for biobased products and continues to audit more than 20 percent of
    its facilities every six months on GPP compliance. NASA also
    acquired more than 1,000 EPEAT computers per month through the ODIN
    contract.