Welcome to Carbon Copy 

Welcome to the first edition of Carbon Copy, the newsletter of 

Climate Leaders. 

government partnership that encourages companies to develop 

long-term comprehensive climate change strategies and set 

greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals. Partners benefit 

by identifying themselves as environmental leaders, receiving 

technical assistance in the development of their GHG emissions 

inventory, improving their understanding of their GHG emissions, 

and creating a lasting record of their accomplishments. 

Carbon Copy will be published quarterly as an 

e-newsletter and will be available on the Climate Leaders 

Website. Look for the first e-dition in October. 

I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE : 

1 WELCOME TO CARBON COPY 

2 CLIMATE LEADERS GROWS TO OVER FORTY 

PARTNERS 

3 CLIMATE LEADERS PARTNERS SET GHG 

REDUCTION TARGETS 

4 SSISTS CLIMATE LEADERS TO REACH 

GHG REDUCTION TARGETS 

6 PROGRAM UPDATES 

7 UPCOMING EVENTS OF INTEREST 

ATTACHMENT: TAPPING LANDFILL'S POTENTIAL: 

S.C. JOHNSON HOPES TO TRANSFORM GASES INTO 

ELECTRICITY FOR PLANT 

CLIMATE LEADERS PARTNERS 

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 

ALCAN ALUMINUM C

ALCOA INC. 

BALL CORPORATION 

BALTIMORE AIRCOIL COMPANY 

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BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, INC. 

BP P.L.C. 

CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC. 

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EASTMAN KODAK C

EXELON CORPORATION 

FETZER VINEYARDS 

FIRST ENVIRONMENT 

FPL GROUP, INC. 

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION 

HASBRO 

HOLCIM (US) INC. 

IBM CORPORATION 

INTERFACE, INC. 

INTERNATIONAL PAPER 

JOHNSON & JOHNSON 

L NORTH AMERICA 

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 

MILLER BREWING C

NATIONAL R ENERGY LABORATORY 

NORM THOMPSON OUTFITTERS, INC. 

PFIZER INC. 

PSEG 

R COMPANY 

S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC. 

SHAKLEE CORPORATION 

ST. LAWRENCE CEMENT 

STAPLES, INC. 

STM

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 

TARGET CORPORATION 

UNILEVER HPC 

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION 

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Climate Leaders Grows to 

More Than Forty Partners 

We are pleased to announce that eleven new partners 

have recently joined Climate Leaders! Get to know the 

latest additions. 

Baltimore Aircoil Company 

Baltimore Aircoil Company, headquartered in 

Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1938 and is a 

worldwide manufacturer and marketer of evaporative 

heat transfer and ice thermal storage products that 

conserve resources and respect the environment. 

Baltimore Aircoil products make use of the desirable 

properties of water, one of nature's most abundant 

cooling media, to provide cooling solutions for airconditioning, industrial processes, power generation 

and refrigeration. 

Bank of America 

As a global financial services company, Bank of 

America provides corporate financial services in more 

than 150 countries and has a national consumer 

banking franchise featuring 4,400 domestic offices, 

13,000 ATMs and online banking services used by 

more than 5 million customers. Bank of America is 

committed to taking a leadership role in helping to 

make economic development and environmental 

protection compatible. The bank believes that 

environmental protection is an integral component of 

doing business in today's world. 

Exelon Corporation 

Exelon Corporation is one of the nation’s largest 

electric utilities with approximately 5 million customers 

and more than $15 billion in annual revenues. The 

company has one of the industry’s largest portfolios of 

electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach 

and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. 

Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5 million 

customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania and gas to more 

than 440,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. 

Exelon is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. 

Fetzer Vineyards 

Located in California's Mendocino County, Fetzer 

Vineyards was founded in 1968 by the Fetzer family 

and is now part of the Brown-Forman Wine Group. 

Throughout the last decade, Fetzer has been 

committed to organic vineyard farming practices, and 

is a pioneer in solid waste reduction and innovative 

recycling programs. 

Lafarge North America Inc. 

Lafarge North America is the largest diversified 

construction materials company and supplier of 

cement, aggregates and concrete, and other materials 

for residential, commercial, institutional and public 

works construction in the United States and Canada. 

Lafarge North America is part of the Lafarge Group, a 

world leader in building materials that is active in 75 

countries, and employs more than 77,000 people. 

Raytheon Company 

Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Raytheon 

today is focused on defense, government and 

commercial electronics and business aviation and 

special mission aircraft. Raytheon is committed to 

improving the environment through comprehensive 

pollution prevention and stewardship of our natural 

resources. Raytheon supports projects that work on an 

ecosystem basis, encouraging community participation 

and collaborative approaches among organizations. 

Staples, Inc. 

Staples, Inc. launched the office supplies superstore 

industry with the opening of its first store in Brighton 

(Boston), Massachusetts, in May 1986. The company 

is dedicated to protecting and preserving natural 

resources through four major areas: the purchase and 

promotion of recycled content products; chain-wide 

recycling initiatives; energy conservation programs and 

renewable power procurement; and environmental 

education for their customers and associates 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. 

Sun's mission is to solve complex network computing 

problems for governments, enterprises, and service 

providers. Since its inception in 1982, Sun 

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strength hardware, software, and services that make 

the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 

countries and on the World Wide Web. Sun is 

committed to providing timely and useful information 

regarding the company's impact on the environment, 

their programs, and the health and safety of 

employees. 

United States Steel Corporation 

United States Steel Corporation—headquartered in 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—manufactures and sells a 

wide variety of steel sheet, plate, tubular and tin 

products, coke and taconite pellets. On May 20, 2003, 

U.S. Steel completed the acquisition of most of the 

steelmaking assets of National Steel Corporation, 

securing its position as the largest steelmaker in North 

America and the sixth largest in the world. U.S. Steel is 

a major supplier of high quality steel products to the 

automotive, appliance, tin and oil county markets. 

United Technologies Corporation 

Headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, United 

Technologies Corporation provides a broad range of 

high-technology products and services to the building 

systems and aerospace industries worldwide. UTC has 

more than 200 facilities worldwide participating in 

conservation efforts, including more than 100 in the 

United States, more than 50 in Europe and nearly 40 in 

Asia. UTC is the 49th largest company in the U.S. UTC 

is the parent company of Carrier Corporation, which is 

the first corporation in the air conditioning and 

refrigeration industry to join Climate Leaders. 

Unilever HPC 

Unilever is one of the largest producers of home and 

personal care products. Unilever's brands include 

Whisk, Surf, All, Q-tips, Suave, Thermasilk, Mentadent, 

Dove, Lever 2000, and others. For the past two years, 

Unilever has embraced an aggressive campaign to 

reduce its energy and environmental footprint. 

Did You Know.... 

Climate Leaders Partners Take 

Innovative Strategies to Help Meet 

GHG Reduction Targets 

Being a Climate Leaders Partner means going beyond 

business as usual. Our partners are taking aggressive 

steps and innovative measures to meet their GHG 

reduction targets, placing them at the forefront of their 

industry sector. The attached article (located at the 

back of this newsletter), reprinted with permission 

from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, describes an 

innovative strategy that SC Johnson is using to meet 

their Climate Leaders GHG reduction target. 

Climate Leaders Partners 

Set GHG Reduction Targets 

Climate Leaders is proud to announce the latest GHG 

reduction targets set by our Partners. These 

companies have set aggressive goals that are better 

than business as usual for their sector. 

Pfizer is one of the world's largest healthcare 

companies, providing human and animal 

pharmaceuticals, as well as consumer products. 

Pfizer's business success is firmly rooted in its 

corporate values of setting high goals and driving for 

achievement. This philosophy is clearly apparent in 

Pfizer's global Environmental, Health and Safety 

programs that strive to promote environmental, 

economic, and social well being in the communities 

where Pfizer operates. 

Pfizer's Goal: To reduce its GHG emissions by 

35% per dollar revenue from 2000 to 2007. 

St. Lawrence Cement is a producer and supplier of 

products and services for the construction industry, 

namely cement, concrete, aggregates, and 

construction. The company operates in Canada and on 

the eastern seaboard of the United States and 

employs a total of 2,800 people. St. Lawrence Cement 

has an annual cement production capacity of 3.7 

million metric tons and 700,000 metric tons of mineral 

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components. St. Lawrence Cement is a subsidiary of 

Holcim Ltd, one of the world's leading suppliers of 

cement, aggregates, concrete, and constructionrelated services. 

St. Lawrence Cement's Goal: To reduce its GHG 

emissions by 15% per ton of cementitious 

product from 2000 to 2010. 

Johnson & Johnson, with approximately 101,800 

employees, is a comprehensive and broad based 

manufacturer of health care products, as well as a 

provider of related services for the consumer, 

pharmaceutical, and professional markets. Johnson & 

Johnson has more than 197 operating companies in 54 

countries around the world, selling products in more 

than 175 countries. Johnson & Johnson is an active 

participant in voluntary programs to reduce GHGs and 

has participated in several other EPA programs, 

including ENERGY STAR®, Climate Wise, and the 

Green Power Partnership. 

Johnson & Johnson's Goal: To reduce its GHG 

emissions by a total of 14% from 2001 to 2010. 

Previously Announced Climate 

Leaders Partner Goals: 

General Motors Corporation 

GM has pledged to reduce total emissions by 10% for 

all of their North American facilities by 2005. 

Holcim (US) Inc. 

Holcim has pledged to reduce GHG emissions by 12% 

per ton of cement from 2000 to 2008. 

IBM Corporation 

IBM has pledged to reduce CO2 emissions reductions 

equivalent to 4% of electricity and fuel use from 2000 

to 2005 and reduce PFC emissions by 10% from 2000 

to 2005. 

Miller Brewing Company 

Miller Brewing Company has pledged to reduce 

emissions by 18% per barrel of production by 2006. 

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory 

NREL has pledged to reduce GHG emissions by 10% 

per square foot from 2000 to 2005. 

Norm Thompson Outfitters, Inc. 

Norm Thompson Outfitters has pledged to reduce 

GHG emissions by 90% from 2000 to 2005. 

SC Johnson & Son, Inc. 

SC Johnson & Son has pledged to reduce GHG 

emissions by 23% per pound of product from 2000 to 

2005. 

EPA Assists Climate 

Leaders to Reach GHG 

Reduction Targets 

Climate Leaders Partners have access to technical 

assistance from a variety of EPA voluntary programs to 

help them meet their GHG reduction goals. For 

instance, SC Johnson was able to take advantage of 

assistance from EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach 

Program (LMOP) to assess the feasibility of a landfill 

gas opportunity (see the attached article at the end of 

this newsletter for details on SC Johnson's project). 

The following article highlights the LMOP program and 

the services it can provide. 

Considering Landfill Gas Energy in 

Your GHG Reduction Strategies? 

LMOP Is Here to Help! 

Landfill gas (LFG) energy projects 

can play a significant role in meeting 

a company’s GHG reduction goals. Landfill gas (which 

results from the natural decomposition of organic 

material in landfills) contains significant quantities of 

methane – a potent GHG more than 20 times as 

effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO2. 

However, the methane content of LFG also makes it a 

valuable, local source of renewable energy. LFG can 

be recovered from landfills and used to produce 

electricity or used directly to replace fossil fuels in 

numerous applications. LFG energy projects not only 

eliminate emissions of methane – they also offset the 

need for non-renewable resources, such as coal and 

oil, thereby reducing emissions of air pollutants from 

conventional resources. 

LFG energy can be used to replace fossil fuel 

use at a Climate Leaders Partner facility, directly 

reducing GHG emissions from energy use. 

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In addition, Climate Leaders Partners can invest in 

LFG projects outside of their facilities, creating GHG 

offsets. EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program 

(LMOP) is a voluntary partnership program that helps 

develop and promote LFG energy projects. 

More than 300 businesses, landfill owners and 

operators, communities, states, utilities, and energy 

users are current LMOP Partners, including 

corporations such as GM, Interface, International Truck 

and Engine Corp., Ajinomoto, and Lucent 

Technologies. 

Climate Leaders Partners that are currently 

involved in LFG energy projects include General 

Motors (3 projects), SC Johnson & Son, 

International Paper, We Energies, Cinergy 

Corp., and Interface, Inc. (planning). 

There are currently 340 LFG energy projects around 

the country, with an installed electricity generating 

capacity of 1000 megawatts, in addition to the direct 

supply of 230,000,000 cubic feet per day of landfill gas 

to industrial applications. 

LMOP offers a broad range of products and services 

that can help meet the needs of Climate Leaders 

Partners interested in incorporating LFG energy into 

their climate change strategies: 

Identify Potential Projects. LMOP, working with 

Climate Leaders Partners, can help identify candidate 

landfill sites in proximity to partner facilities and help 

match facility fuel needs to LFG availability. LMOP can 

also help identify potential LFG offsets projects. LFG 

generation models and financial feasibility studies can 

be produced using industry specific software 

(LandGEM and LFGcost). LMOP can also suggest 

partners that are experts at project engineering and 

development. 

Education/Public Relations. During the project 

development process LMOP can help in educating the 

public, elected officials, regulators, and others on the 

benefits of LFG energy. Assistance may take the form 

of letters of support, brochures, attendance at public 

meetings, etc. When the project is launched, LMOP 

can also assist in grand opening ceremonies, media 

outreach, and partner recognition. 

LFG Project Development Handbook, which 

provides step-by-step project development guidance, 

including economic analysis, financing, choosing 

project partners, environmental permitting, and 

contracting for services. 

Technical fact sheets on a range of topics, including 

how to adapt boilers to utilize LFG and using 

microturbines powered with LFG. 

Funding Landfill Gas Projects: A Guide to State, 

Federal, and Foundation Resources , which offers 

detailed information on state, federal, and foundation 

funding resources for LFG energy projects, such as 

loans, grants, renewable energy trust funds, and 

property, sale, and use tax exemptions. 

Case Studies of successful and innovative LFG 

energy projects. These include projects such as Lucent 

Technologies, which saves $100,000 a year on fuel 

bills by fueling boiler operations with LFG instead of 

fossil fuels; GM, which expects to save more than 

$400,000 per year at one facility by replacing fuel oil 

with LFG; SC Johnson, who will use LFG in a 

combined heat and power application at one of their 

plants and expects to save millions of dollars per year 

while reducing GHG emissions; and Ajinomoto, which 

uses LFG to produce steam at its facility and prevents 

carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to removing more 

than 23,000 cars from the road. 

Follow the Steps to Landfill Gas Energy 

Development, a brochure that provides an overview of 

the LFG energy project development process and 

information about how the LMOP team can work for 

you. 

All these products—and many more—are 

available in the Products and Services section of 

LMOP’s Web site 

www.epa.gov/lmop/products/products.htm 

Exciting New Project Feasibility 

T ool! 

Many times the bottom line is what counts in 

developing LFG energy projects. To that end, LMOP is 

excited to announce the development of a new tool that 

will help in assessing project financial feasibility— 

LFGCost. 

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LFGcost is a model for evaluating the cost and 

economic performance of several LFG energy 

technologies, including turbines, microturbines, 

standard reciprocating engines, small reciprocating 

engines, direct gas use systems, LFG to liquefied 

natural gas (LNG) conversion, collection and flaring 

systems, and leachate evaporators. LFGcost 

performs many functions: 

 Calculates the LFG generation profile of a 

landfill based on site-specific characteristics 

and estimates the cost of constructing and 

operating a LFG energy project at the landfill; 

 Estimates the cost of applying the 

technologies to the landfill, including capital 

and operating costs for the technology, as well 

as the costs of the gas collection system; 

 Performs an economic analysis of the 

proposed project to determine economic 

factors such as the cash flow schedule, 

payback period, rate of return, and net present 

value for the project; and 

 Provides an estimate of the GHG benefit of the 

project, including its direct reduction of LFG 

methane emissions and the indirect reduction 

of CO2 emissions from displaced fossil fuel 

combustion. 

Users have the option to change economic 

assumptions (e.g., interest rates) and technical 

assumptions, such as specifying whether to size the 

energy recovery technology for the lowest, average, 

highest, or user-specified LFG flow over the 15-year 

project life, and whether to include gas collection and 

flaring system costs when running the model. EPA is 

currently testing the beta-version of LFGcost, and 

will release the final version to the public later this 

year. 

Consider Joining LMOP! 

Companies can join the program by signing a voluntary 

memorandum of understanding. For more information 

about LMOP, call 1-888-782-7937 or visit the Web site 

at www.epa.gov/lmop. 

P ROGRAM U PDATES 

DRAFT PROTOCOLS AVAILABLE IN JUNE 

The latest draft versions of four cross-sector Climate 

Leaders core module guidance documents will be 

released in June. The four guidance documents deal 

with emissions from stationary combustion, 

purchased electricity, mobile sources, and 

refrigeration and air conditioning (AC) equipment 

use. These drafts reflect the comments received from 

the external peer review process. These guidance 

documents are currently undergoing a final internal 

review and will be finalized later this year. 

DRAFT PROTOCOLS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT 

Also, currently there are three sector-specific protocols 

available for review and comment. These sectorspecific guidance documents deal with emissions from 

cement production, iron and steel production, and 

manufacturing of refrigeration and AC equipment. 

The comment period will be open until the end of 

August. 

CLIMATE LEADERS ICR REQUEST FORWARDED 

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, EPA 

announces that an Information Collection Request 

(ICR) for the Climate Leaders Program has been 

forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval. Climate Leaders 

Partners interested in providing comments on this ICR 

should consult the Federal Register in early June (the 

timing of the actual publication of the ICR notice is 

hard to estimate), and follow the instructions in the 

Federal Register announcement. 

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UPCOMING EVENTS OF INTEREST 

• July 16-18, 2003—International conference on 

The Impact of Global Environmental Problems on 

continental and Coastal Marine Waters, Geneva, 

Switzerland. 

www.unige.ch/sciences/near 

• July 29-August 1, 2003—ACEEE Summer 


Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry in Rye 


Brook, New York. For more information visit 


www.aceee.org 


• July 30-August 1, 2003—Stack Emissions 


Symposium, Clearwater Beach, Florida. 


http://secure.scientech.com/conferences 


• August 17-20, 2003—Energy 2003: Real World, 

Real Solutions - An Energy Efficiency Workshop 

and Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. For 

more information visit 

www.energy2003.ee.doe.gov 

• October 1-3, 2003—Sustainable Energy Expo & 

Conference Los Angeles, California. 

www.sustainableexpo.com/ 

• October 21-23, 2003—The 2003 Business and 

Energy Conference, New York, New York. 

www.conference-board.org/energy.htm 

• October 22-24, 2003—IETA Annual Forum 


2003, Ottawa, Canada. 


www.ieta.org 


• November 11-14, 2003—Business for 

Sustainability Annual Conference: Building and 

Sustaining Solutions, Los Angeles, California. 

www.bsr.org 

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 

• Nominations for the 2004 EPA Climate 

Protection Awards are due in mid-October. Visit 

www.epa.gov/cppd/awards/climproawards.htm 

for information on the nomination process. 

CLIMATE LEADERS PARTNERS 

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 

ALCAN ALUMINUM C

ALCOA INC. 

BALL CORPORATION 

BALTIMORE AIRCOIL COMPANY 

B A

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, INC. 

BP P.L.C. 

CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC. 

C CORP. 

EASTMAN KODAK C

EXELON CORPORATION 

FETZER VINEYARDS 

FIRST ENVIRONMENT, INC. 

FPL GROUP, INC. 

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION 

HASBRO, INC. 

HOLCIM (US) INC. 

IBM CORPORATION 

INTERFACE, INC. 

INTERNATIONAL PAPER 

JOHNSON & JOHNSON 

L NORTH AMERICA INC. 

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 

MILLER BREWING C

NATIONAL R ENERGY LABORATORY 

NORM THOMPSON OUTFITTERS, INC. 

PFIZER INC. 

PSEG 

R COMPANY 

S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC. 

SHAKLEE CORPORATION 

ST. LAWRENCE CEMENT 

STAPLES, INC. 

STM

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 

TARGET CORPORATION 

UNILEVER HPC 

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION 

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 

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ORPORATION 

ANK OF MERICA 

INERGY 

OMPANY 

AFARGE 

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