Inside This Issue: 

Page 1: 

Focus on Mobile Sources 

Page 2: 

Innovative Partner Strategies 

for Reducing Mobile Source 

Emissions: Interface, Inc. 

and Norm Thompson 

Outfitters 

Page 4: 

Voluntary Programs Focused 

on Mobile Source Emission 

Reductions: Business for 

Social Responsibility’s Clean 

Cargo, EPA’s SmartWay 

Transport, and EPA’s Best 

Workplaces for Commuters. 

Page 9: 

Climate Leaders Partners 

Announce New GHG 

Reduction Targets 

Climate Leaders Welcomes 

New Partners 

Visit us online at 

www.epa.gov/climateleaders 

Focus on Mobile Sources 

This edition of Carbon Copy focuses on mobile sources, a potentially important but 

sometimes overlooked component of a GHG inventory. Factors such as decentralized 

records for fleets and fuel purchasing can make mobile source emissions tracking and 

measurement difficult. This issue identifies how some companies have dealt with the 

challenges of measuring and reporting emissions from mobile sources. In addition, we 

emissions sources. 

What Mobile Source Emissions Reports Are Required by Climate Leaders? 

Climate Leaders requires the reporting of emissions from all owned or operated 

mobile sources. Climate Leaders Partners should consult the Climate Leaders GHG 

Inventory Protocol Guidance on Direct Emissions from Mobile Combustion Sources 

(available on the Climate Leaders Web site, www.epa.gov/climateleaders) for 

methods on estimating CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions from mobile sources. Other 

company-related mobile source emissions, including employee commuting, employee 

estimating emissions from these optional indirect sources. 

Tracking Your Direct Mobile Source Emissions 

Companies might overlook mobile source emissions, assuming these emissions are 

emissions can actually be significant. Climate Leaders recommends estimating 

emissions based on fuel use instead of miles driven and average fuel economy 

factors. This method helps companies to obtain a more accurate calculation of 

emissions. 

Many companies are pursuing innovative ways to reduce their mobile source 

emissions such as those from employee commuting, employee travel, and upstream/ 

companies to track these emissions and subsequent reductions. Tracking and 

quantifying reductions from these sources help to minimize a company’s climate 

change impact. 

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highlight voluntary programs providing assistance for tracking and reducing these 

travel, and upstream/downstream third-party transportation emissions are considered 

optional indirect emissions. Climate Leaders is working on developing guidance for 

As every engineer is frequently told, "You can't manage what you don't measure." 

not significant. Many companies have found, after completing an estimate, that these 

Tracking and Reducing Optional Indirect Mobile Source Emissions 

downstream third-party transportation. While not required, Climate Leaders allows 

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Innovative Partner 

Strategies for Reducing 

Mobile Source Emissions 

Climate Leaders Partners Interface, Inc. and Norm 

Thompson Outfitters are implementing a variety of 

innovative practices and programs to reduce their 

mobile source emissions. 

Interface, Inc. 

Interface is a resourceintensive company whose 

largest divisions—commercial carpet and fabrics—are 

petroleum-dependent. With sales in more than 100 

countries and manufacturing facilities at 14 sites on 

four continents, the company has the opportunity to 

impact global commerce and ecology. Interface 

considers climate change to be one of the most 

pressing environmental issues the company faces. 

Participation in EPA's Climate Leaders is helping 

Interface to understand, quantify, and reduce its 

climate change impact. Interface is undertaking the 

following strategies to track and reduce its mobile 

source emissions. 

Trees for Travel 

In October 1997, Interface created a company-wide 

program called “Trees for Travel.” Data are gathered 

annually on business air miles flown by Interface 

employees. U.S. facilities use a single travel agency 

for all business air travel, which simplifies data 

collection. Outside of the United States, travel 

coordinators at each business unit gather the data on 

air miles flown. Total CO2 emissions are calculated, 

and a contribution is made annually to American 

Forests, a nonprofit conservation and reforestation 

organization, for the purchase of trees to offset these 

emissions. As a result of this program, Interface has 

sponsored the planting of more than 38,000 trees. 

Employee input was solicited through a survey in 2001, 

when Interface’s contribution was used to plant 

approximately 8,000 trees in the Tahoe National Forest 

in California, near Interface’s City of Industry, 

California, manufacturing facility. 

Interface Cool FuelTM Program 

Interface partnered with BP, also a Climate Leaders 

Partner and one of the world's largest petroleum 

companies, to create the Interface Cool Fuel 

program—a unique opportunity to "zero out" the CO2 

emissions caused by the company's business-related 

motor vehicle travel. This program is a major step in 

Interface’s goals to reduce its CO2 footprint and a 

significant milestone in its journey to sustainability. 

Interface’s motor vehicle fuel supplier provides a 

corporate rebate based on the gallons of fuel 

purchased in the Cool Fuel program. Interface uses 

the rebate to purchase CO2 emission offsets, which 

zero out the climate change impact. The Climate 

Neutral Network, an independent nonprofit group, 

verifies the offsets. 

The Cool Fuel program is 

not only "climate neutral,” 

it is also "cost neutral." 

Since the program began, Interface associates with 

company cars have purchased more than 97,000 

gallons of fuel using the Interface Cool Fuel Card. For 

each gallon of fuel consumed, 25 pounds of CO2 is 

emitted into the atmosphere, making Interface 

responsible for offsetting 2.4 million pounds of CO2. In 

addition, as of 2003, Interface’s costs for offsets are no 

greater than the money recovered through the rebate 

program, so the Cool Fuel program is not only “climate 

neutral,” it is also “cost neutral.” 

Clean CO2mmute 

In addition to reducing company-wide GHG emissions, 

the employees of Interface Research Corporation 

(IRC), a division of Interface, have transferred lessons 

about sustainability into their everyday lives. IRC 

employees travel hundreds of miles each day, and 

public transportation and carpooling are not feasible for 

most of the employees based in Kennesaw, Georgia. 

A team set out to develop a convenient, affordable 

program that would allow employees to offset their 

CO2 footprint. The result was a voluntary program 

called “Clean CO2mmute”. 

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After reviewing a number of programs for offsetting 

CO2 emissions, the team determined that the most 

effective program would involve purchasing and 

planting trees to sequester CO2. The company had 

already experienced great success with offsetting 

employee air miles through the similar "Trees for 

Travel" program.The trees were affordable and 

theprogram was very simple. The trees sequestered 

CO2 and some of the tree planting sites worked to 

reverse urban deforestation. 

Administration of the Clean CO2mmute program is 

simple. Every year the program collects each 

participant’s commuting mileage, including reductions 

for carpooling, and converts the mileage into pounds of 

CO2 emitted, using default average fuel economy. IRC 

partners with American Forests to purchase trees to 

offset the CO2 emitted. The Clean CO2mmute program 

is a partnership, and the cost of purchasing the trees is 

split with the employees. The average employee cost 

is $6 per year. 

Excitement surrounding the program has surpassed 

expectations. Nearly all employees participate in the 

program. Some associates committed to not only 

offsetting personal emissions but also their spouses’ 

and one associate has committed to offsetting 

emissions for every person living in his home. 

SmartWay Transport Charter Partner 

Interface is a Charter Partner of EPA’s SmartWay 

Transport Program, a voluntary program which 

encourages fuel efficiency improvements in the freight 

sector (see page 6 for a description of the SmartWay 

Program). As a shipper, Interface has many 

opportunities to reduce the company’s transportation 

footprint including: 

• Selecting the most efficient mode of transportation. 

• Choosing the most efficient carrier to ship its 

products. 

• Optimizing freight logistics by: 

 Combining orders to create a full truckload 

instead of multiple partial truckloads. 

 Improved receiving policies including timing of 

deliveries and ‘no idling’ policies. 

 Scheduling raw material pickups with product 

delivery. 

A Transportation Working Group composed of 

representatives from many of Interface's business 

units across the world is actively working to establish 

Interface’s transportation footprint, including setting a 

baseline year, developing metrics to monitor 

performance, and collecting and sharing best practices 

between business units. 

For more information on Interface’s efforts related to 

mobile sources of GHG emissions, please visit its Web 

site at www.interfacesustainability.com. 

Norm Thompson Outfitters 

Norm Thompson Outfitters is a 52-year-old catalog 

retailer founded and headquartered in Portland, 

Oregon. Under the titles Norm Thompson, Solutions, 

and Early Winters, the company sells a wide range of 

merchandise, including apparel, gifts, travel items, 

food, household goods, and outdoor gear. At $200 

million in annual sales volume, Norm Thompson is 

among the top 1 percent in the catalog industry. Norm 

Thompson integrates sustainability throughout every 

facet of its operations and has a five-year goal to 

achieve a zero net GHG and forestry impact, eliminate 

identified toxins from products and processes, and 

achieve zero waste. As a non-industrial company, 

Norm Thompson has found that a large percent of its 

GHG impact is from transportation of products, and 

therefore has focused efforts on reducing emissions 

from mobile sources. 

Commuting Options 

Through a partnership with Flexcar, a provider of carsharing programs, and TriMet, Portland’s regional 

public transportation system, Norm Thompson is able 

to offer its employees an alternative commuting option. 

In January 2003, Flexcar provided Norm Thompson 

with a Honda Odyssey Minivan. During commute 

hours, the minivan is used to shuttle Norm Thompson 

employees from the closest rail station to the 

company’s headquarters. Between the commute 

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hours, the minivan is parked at Norm Thompson for 

use by employees to run errands or provide 

transportation during lunch. After 7 p.m. and on 

weekends, the Flexcar minivan is available for any 

Flexcar member to use. The Flexcar program replaced 

an inefficient vehicle that was previously used as the 

commuting shuttle. Norm Thompson hopes the 

availability of Flexcar on site will encourage more 

employees to use alternative transportation for their 

commute. 

"Ship All Together" 

As a catalog business, most of Norm Thompson's 

emissions come from the shipping of its products. 

Norm Thompson developed "Ship All Together" to help 

reduce emissions and improve logistics on customer 

shipping. If a customer orders several products and not 

all of them are in stock, sales representatives are 

trained to ask the customer if they would prefer to wait 

and ship all of the items together. This arrangement 

reduces the number of shipments, and thus, reduces 

GHG emissions. 

Norm Thompson estimates it has saved $400,000 

through its "Ship All Together" program as a result of 

reduced packaging, labor, and shipping. 

Norm Thompson estimates it has 

saved $400,000 through 

its "Ship All Together" program 

as a result of 

reduced packaging, labor, and shipping. 

SmartWay Transport Charter Partner 

As a SmartWay Transport Charter Partner and 

shipper, Norm Thompson is encouraging its carriers to 

become SmartWay Partners as well. As Norm 

Thompson’s carriers become SmartWay partners, they 

will be able to ship their products with lower carbon 

and pollution impacts. 

Voluntary Programs 

Focused on Mobile Source 

Emissions Reduction 

For companies looking to reduce their mobile source 

emissions, there are numerous programs that can 

provide assistance. Here we highlight the Business for 

Social Responsibility’s Green Freight and Clean Cargo 

programs, EPA’s Smartway Transport Program, and 

EPA’s Best Workplaces for Commuters Program. 

Business for Social Responsibility 

Green Freight and Clean Cargo at a 

Glance 

Mission and History 

Business for Social 

Responsibility (BSR) 

facilitates two business working groups that formed as 

retail and manufacturing companies sought to expand 

their supply chain environmental management systems 

to encompass product transportation. The groups, 

Clean Cargo and Green Freight, focus on sea and land 

transport, respectively. During 2002 and 2003, both 

groups grew to include not only retailers and 

manufacturers (shippers) but also their transport 

providers (carriers). Together, these companies have 

discussed the environmental impacts of product 

transportation. They have also determined what 

information to exchange so that retailers can support 

environmentally preferable transport providers. The 

group has paid special attention to GHGs because of 

growing concerns about the bottom line risks of climate 

change. Throughout this process, BSR has sought to 

ensure that both shippers’ and carriers’ needs are 

recognized and met. 

Tools 

Green Freight and Clean Cargo’s members have 

chosen to develop two tools that will help shippers and 

carriers pursue continual improvement. 

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1. Environmental Performance 

Surveys (EPS) 

Carriers can use EPSs to explain their environmental 

management systems and demonstrate change over 

time. EPSs provide a common set of environmental 

standards by which to measure and report fleet 

performance. The surveys include questions about a 

company’s environmental policy, environmental 

management system, maintenance procedures, key 

environmental impacts, and GHG emissions. The 

importance of each topic area is explained within each 

survey. 

Design Principles of the EPS 

Both shippers and carriers recognize that the benefits 

to exchanging information must far outweigh the costs 

of gathering, conveying, and interpreting it. BSR has 

worked with the following guiding principles in mind. 

• The surveys are not designed to increase 

expenses nor to create extra work, but to help 

customers understand, compare, and support the 

efforts of carriers. 

• The surveys focus on qualitative answers and not 

quantitative data except for reasonable areas 

where the effort required to collect data is equaled 

by customer interest in a topic. 

Intended Uses of the EPS 

The shippers in Green Freight and Clean Cargo 

understand that the first part of any supplier-based 

initiative is to understand the opportunities for (and 

obstacles to) change. Initially, the EPSs will be used as 

vehicles for learning on the part of shippers and 

carriers. Over time, shippers may begin to screen 

carriers for basic environmental performance using an 

EPS, and by including environmental standards in 

purchasing policies, rewarding environmentally 

preferable carriers with contracts, and working 

collaboratively with carriers to launch green initiatives 

or build environmental management capacity. Carriers 

benefit from knowing the environmental concerns and 

priorities of their customers, being able to showcase 

their own initiatives and achievements through the 

survey, and having one standardized format to use 

with all customers. 

2. GHG Calculation Methods 

BSR has also developed a set of Calculation 

Methods that shippers can use, with their carriers’ 

assistance, to track and minimize GHG emissions due 

to product transportation. Business-based factors have 

already prompted more than half of the world’s largest 

companies to develop plans to address climate 

change. The calculation methods developed by the 

Green Freight and Clean Cargo groups make it 

possible for retail and manufacturing companies to 

track their transport-related emissions using practical 

and consistent approaches. The theories behind each 

formula are explained within the worksheet, and 

sample calculations are provided for every step. 

Design Principles of the Calculation Methods 

Both shippers and carriers understand that creating 

practical methods means balancing the desire for 

specificity with the need for simplicity. To that end, 

BSR has worked with the following guiding principles in 

mind. 

• Wherever possible, the calculation methods use 

information already tracked by shippers or carriers 

for other business reasons. 

• In many instances, the calculation methods rely on 

practical assumptions, such as assuming that 

products travel directly from point A to B. By 

consistently applying these assumptions, the 

group will be able to see positive patterns emerge, 

rather than getting bogged down in a quest for 100 

percent accuracy. 

• The calculation methods are designed to be used 

with various levels of available data. Carriers may 

begin by providing emissions based on fleet 

averages and then refine their data over time. 

Intended Uses of the Calculation Methods 

The shippers in the Green Freight and Clean Cargo 

groups are committed to tracking and reducing 

transport-related emissions. As shippers change and 

track their behavior to drive down transport-related 

emissions, they will be able to report these 

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improvements. Shippers recognize that each carrier’s 

operations are unique, and therefore do NOT intend to 

use these numbers to rank their carriers, but rather to 

track and support individual improvements over time 

due to improved fuel efficiency, routing, and loading. 

Benefits of Participation 

Companies that join BSR’s working groups benefit 

from access to technical advisors and cutting edge 

research, as well as networking opportunities with peer 

companies in the transport and retail and 

manufacturing sectors. 

Benefits of participation include: 

• Access to Environmental Leadership Tools – 

Clean Cargo and Green Freight companies help 

develop and have early access to instruments that 

aid in calculating and decreasing a company’s 

environmental footprint in the transport industry. 

• Increased Influence – Tools and guidelines 

developed by a wide range of companies as well 

as multiple sectors of the supply chain (shippers 

and carriers) are widely supported by industry. 

• Enhanced Brand – In a crowded marketplace, 

leadership companies attract both consumers and 

investors, many of whom are placing increasing 

emphasis on the environmental performance of 

companies. 

• Competitive Advantage – By proactively 

managing the environmental impacts of product 

transportation and minimizing emissions, 

companies gain first-mover advantages while 

setting up systems to mitigate the financial impact 

of future regulations. 

• Root-Cause Improvements – Business-based 

solutions operate independent and in advance of 

national or international standards.Those that 

address the root causes of emissions, rather than 

simply offsetting them, help to spur innovation in 

the sectors where it is most needed. 

• Streamlined Reporting – Through the use of a 

common industry-supported tool such as the EPS, 

both shippers and carriers reduce time spent 

requesting and responding to individual company 

surveys. 

• Shared Resources – Through the working 

groups, companies can share the cost of 

resources that otherwise might be too costly for a 

single company to incur. 

Resources 

The Clean Cargo EPS was launched at BSR’s Annual 

Corporate Social Responsibility Conference on 

November 12, 2003. It is now available for 

downloading and adoption by other companies on the 

BSR Web site, www.bsr.org. 

For More Information: 

Business for Social Responsibility 

111 Sutter Street 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

www.bsr.org/sustainabletransport 

environment@bsr.org 

Michelle Lapinski, Senior Manager, Business & 

Environment 

mlapinski@bsr.org 

415 984-3228 

EPA’s Smartway Transport Program 

EPA’s newest voluntary partnership, SmartWayK 

Transport, is designed especially for freight providers 

and their customers. SmartWay Transport establishes 

market-based incentives for fuel efficiency 

improvements, GHG emission reductions, and air 

quality improvements in the freight sector. 

Any truck or rail carrier that measures current 

environmental performance (CO2, NOx, and Particulate 

Matter (PM) emissions, and fuel efficiency) and 

commits to improving its performance can become a 

SmartWay Transport Partner carrier. Any company 

that commits to shipping a certain percentage of its 

freight with SmartWay Transport Partner carriers can 

become a SmartWay Transport Partner shipper. 

SmartWay Transport Partners (shippers and carriers) 

commit to helping EPA achieve the program’s goal to 

remove 33 to 66 million metric tons of CO2 emissions 

from U.S. freight operations by 2012, in addition to 

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associated air quality benefits. To help SmartWay 

Transport Partners contribute to this goal, EPA 

provides technical tools and assistance, and 

educational and outreach materials. 

Technical Assistance 

The cornerstone of the program’s technical assistance 

is the Freight Logistics Environmental and Economic 

Tracking Performance Model (FLEET Performance 

Model). Participating truck carriers enter specifics 

about their fleet—number of trucks, age distribution, 

mileage, fuel consumption, equipment and fuel type, 

and operations. The model calculates the fleet’s 

environmental performance, which is a measure of 

CO2, NOx, and PM in a variety of useful metrics (e.g., 

tons, tons/mile, tons/truck, and company designed 

custom metrics). Additionally, once a carrier describes 

fuel and emissions saving strategies and technologies 

used in its fleet, the model calculates the amounts of 

CO2, NOx, and PM emissions it has already eliminated 

from its fleet operations, providing a sense of how 

environmentally efficient its fleet is operating. 

The FLEET Performance model includes a mixture of 

available and emerging technologies and best 

practices, designed to provide carriers with a variety of 

options that can be tailored to fit virtually any fleet. 

This flexibility allows a carrier to design and compare 

different “customized” options and project the cost, 

fuel, and emissions saving benefits of incorporating 

these options into its fleet. Case studies and technical 

fact sheets give additional information about specific 

technologies and practices, including information on 

typical applications, performance and costeffectiveness. A complementary model for shippers, 

currently in development, allows any company to 

calculate the carbon emissions profile of its shipping, 

receiving, or distribution facilities, and to project the 

GHG-savings potential of incorporating additional 

facility-based strategies into its freight operations. 

Demonstration Projects and Public Education 

Tools 

In addition to encouraging cleaner, more efficient truck 

and locomotive fleets, and more efficient shipping and 

receiving practices, SmartWay Transport promotes 

more efficient use of intermodal freight options, and 

encourages alternatives to unnecessary locomotive 

and truck idling. Idle reduction can be achieved in a 

number of ways, such as: 

• Company policies that discourage unnecessary 

idling. 

• Operational or routing changes that reduce the 

need to idle. 

• On-board technologies. 

• Truck plazas and rest areas that offer plug-in cab 

power and other amenities. 

The latter allows a driver to rest or sleep in comfort 

with the truck engine shut off, which saves fuel, cuts 

noise, and reduces GHG and pollutant emissions. As 

part of the SmartWay Transport Partnership, EPA 

created the National Transportation Idle-Free Corridors 

Program. This anti-idling program is designed to 

deploy idle reduction strategies along major 

transportation corridors in the United States such as 

ports, borders, truck stops, terminals, rail yards, and 

even along the side of roadways. EPA is working with 

the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), other 

federal and state/local agencies, as well as private 

interests in this program. 

The SmartWay Transport Partnership also encourages 

fleets, their customers, and others to participate in 

projects that demonstrate the performance and 

benefits of fuel saving freight strategies. During the 

past two years, EPA provided funding for a number of 

these projects. Feedback from demonstration projects, 

complemented by EPA research and analysis, will 

continue to inform and improve the technical tools and 

assistance that EPA provides to SmartWay Transport 

Partners. Demonstration projects, together with the 

FLEET Performance Model, the shipper model, 

alternatives to customary yet inefficient practices like 

extended idling, and real-life case studies, provide 

additional incentives for companies to incorporate new 

options into their freight operations, which they 

otherwise might not have considered. 

In addition to technical support, the SmartWay 

Transport Team will provide education materials and 

enrollment kits for companies that want to promote the 

Partnership within their organization and encourage 

their freight providers to become SmartWay Transport 

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Partners. EPA will generate public and media attention 

for SmartWay Transport and the achievements of its 

Partners through multiple channels, including the 

SmartWay Transport Web site; education and outreach 

materials; public meetings and ceremonies; media 

outreach; demonstration projects; national and regional 

conferences and workshops; and special Partner 

recognition events, awards, and coverage. 

By shipping goods more efficiently, SmartWay 

Transport Partners generate additional profit margins 

for the freight sector and reduce fuel consumption, 

which will help curb the nation’s dependence on 

imported oil and contribute to a vibrant national 

economy. These economic impacts will benefit the 

public, over and above the significant public health and 

environmental benefits of the Partnership. 

SmartWay Transport establishes a new benchmark for 

excellence and rewards companies for using 

sustainable technologies and practices. SmartWay 

Transport Partners set an example for other 

organizations to join this important national initiative to 

improve air quality and help curb GHGs. 

The EPA SmartWay Transport team is ready to assist 

any organization that wants to become a SmartWay 

Transport Partner or participate in SmartWay 

Transport projects. The Partnership’s Web site, 

www.epa.gov/smartway/transport, contains materials 

to help interested companies learn about the 

Partnership and information about available strategies 

and projects. Companies and organizations interested 

in joining SmartWay Transport can contact Buddy 

Polovick at 734 214-4928 (polovick.buddy@epa.gov). 

EPA’s Best Workplaces for 

Commuters 

Offering innovative solutions to commuting challenges 

faced by employers and employees, Best Workplaces 

for Commuters is a new public-private sector voluntary 

program advocating employee commuter benefits. 

Established in 2002 by the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), this program publicly recognizes 

employers whose commuter benefits reach a National 

Standard of Excellence. Providing commuter benefits 

helps employers address limited or expensive parking, 

reduce traffic congestion, improve employee recruiting 

and retention, and minimize the environmental impacts 

associated with drive-alone commuting. Participating 

companies earn the designation "Best Workplaces for 

Commuters"—a mark of excellence for 

environmentally and employee-friendly organizations. 

The program builds on the efforts of many top 

employers to help get employees to work safely, on 

time, and free of commute-related stress. It provides 

the tools, guidance, and promotion necessary to help 

U.S. employers of any size incorporate commuter 

benefits into their standard benefits plan, reap financial 

benefits, and gain national recognition. 

To participate in the program, employers sign a 

voluntary agreement with EPA and DOT. As part of 

this agreement, employers make a series of 

commitments, including ensuring a minimum level of 

employee participation, designating a central point of 

contact for employee questions, providing an 

Emergency Ride Home for participating employees, 

and offering a series of Commuter Benefits. In return 

for offering these cutting-edge commuter benefits, 

employers can reap the following important benefits: 

attracting and retaining employees, solving parking 

challenges, offering tax and cost savings to 

employees, exhibiting leadership and corporate 

citizenship, improving national security, and reducing 

environmental impacts. 

In the United States, 73 percent of all commute trips 

are made by people driving alone. With so many 

drivers on the road, motor vehicles now account for 

about 50 percent of the nation's total air pollution. Cars 

burn a significant amount of gasoline, which produces 

a number of harmful air pollutants, including carbon 

monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates. In 

addition, sunlight reacts with some of these pollutants 

to form ground-level ozone (smog), which leads to 

respiratory and other health problems for nearly onethird of the U.S. population. Driving alone also 

contributes heavily to global climate change (e.g., CO2 

emissions). Companies offering commuter benefits 

demonstrate to employees and the community that 

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they are environmental leaders and committed to a 

more sustainable future. For example, an organization 

with 1,000 employees that meets the National 

Standard of Excellence can take credit for removing 

175 cars from the road, saving nearly 44,000 gallons of 

gasoline, and reducing CO2 by 460 tons every year. 

For more information on how to participate in this 

program, visit www.commuterchoice.gov. 

P ROGRAM N EWS : 

RECENTLY ANNOUNCED CLIMATE LEADERS 

TARGETS 

American Electric Power pledges to reduce total 

GHG emissions by 4 percent below an average 1998­

2001 base year by 2006. 

Cinergy Corp. pledges to reduce total GHG emissions 

by 5 percent below a 2000 base year by 2010. 

FPL Group commits to reduce its GHG emissions rate 

by 18 percent per kilowatt-hour between 2001 and 

2008. 

International Paper pledges to reduce total GHG 

emissions by 15 percent from 2000 to 2010. 

WELCOME OUR NEWEST PARTNERS 

American Electric Power • Calpine Corporation • 

Caterpillar, Inc. • The Collins Companies • Gap Inc. • 

Polaroid Corporation • Praxair, Inc. • Tenneco 

Automotive • Xerox Corporation 

American Electric Power 

American Electric Power (AEP) owns and operates 

more than 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity in 

the United States and select international markets, and 

is the largest electricity generator in the U.S. AEP is 

also one of the largest utilities in the United States, 

with almost 5 million customers linked to AEP's 11­

state electricity transmission and distribution grid. The 

company is based in Columbus, Ohio. 

Calpine Corporation 

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Calpine has 89 

energy centers in 22 states in the United States, as 

well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. The 

centers serve a variety of end users, including electric 

utilities, municipalities, industrial companies and 

government institutions. These plants have a capacity 

of more than 22,000 megawatts. The company 

increased its generating capacity by more than 70 

percent in 2002 and, with over 10 projects under 

construction, expects a capacity of more than 29,000 

megawatts by the end of 2005. 

Caterpillar, Inc. 

For more than 75 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been 

building the world's infrastructure, and in partnership 

with Caterpillar dealers, is striving to drive positive and 

sustainable change in every continent. A Fortune 100 

company, Caterpillar is the world's leading 

manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, 

diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas 

turbines. The company is a technology leader in 

construction, transportation, mining, forestry, energy, 

logistics, electronics, financing and electric power 

generation. Caterpillar invested more than $650 million 

in research and technology in 2002 and their 

employees have earned more than 2,400 patents in 

the past five years. 

The Collins Companies 

The Collins Companies, family-owned since 1855, 

features high quality wood products, including: 

Softwood lumber, hardwood lumber, TruWood Siding 

& Trim, and Collins Pine Particleboard. Collins also 

features a full line of FSC-certified wood products. 

Divisions include Collins Pine Co., Fremont Sawmill, 

Kane Hardwood, Collins Products, and Builders 

Supply. They are headquartered in Portland, Oregon. 

Gap, Inc. 

With 2002 revenues of $14.5 billion, Gap Inc. is one of 

the world's largest specialty retailers with three of the 

most recognized brands in the apparel industry—Gap, 

Banana Republic, and Old Navy. Gap Inc. has more 

than 165,000 employees supporting more than 4,200 

stores in more than 3,100 locations in the United 

States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Japan, and 

Germany. Gap Inc. believes that business profitability 

and environmental responsibility go hand in hand. To 

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integrate energy efficiency into its plans, the Energy 

Management Team assists Corporate Architecture, 

Store Design, and Store Operations in the design of 

sites and the specifications of high efficiency 

equipment in new construction. The design standard 

for new stores has become increasingly more energy 

efficient each year. Gap Inc. estimates that its current 

standard for retail stores is 30 percent more efficient 

than its 1995 standard. 

Polaroid Corporation 

Polaroid Corporation is the worldwide leader in instant 

imaging. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, 

the company designs, develops, manufactures, and 

markets instant and digital imaging and printing 

products worldwide. Polaroid also licenses its brand 

name and intellectual property to a select group of 

companies involved in traditional photography, digital 

imaging, consumer electronics, and related industries. 

The company’s principal products are instant film, 

instant and digital cameras, digital printing digital 

peripherals, and secure identification systems with 

software and system solutions. These products are 

used primarily in amateur and professional photography, industry, business, science, medicine, 

government, and education. 

Praxair, Inc. 

Praxair, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the largest 

industrial gases company in North and South America 

and one of the three largest worldwide. Sales in 2002 

were $5.1 billion. About 25,000 employees serve 

customers in 40 countries. Praxair products (e.g., 

oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, CO2, and specialty 

gases), technologies, and services bring efficiency and 

environmental benefits to a wide variety of industries, 

including aerospace, chemicals, electronics, energy, 

food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, and 

metals. 

Tenneco Automotive 

Tenneco Automotive is a $3.5 billion global manufacturing company based in Lake Forest, Illinois, with 

23,000 employees worldwide. The company is one of 

the world's largest designers, manufacturers, and 

distributors of automotive ride control and emission 

control products and systems for the automotive 

original equipment market, and the repair and 

replacement market, or aftermarket. In the original 

equipment market, Tenneco Automotive serves more 

than 25 original equipment manufacturers on a global 

basis. In the aftermarket, Tenneco Automotive serves 

more than 500 customers including wholesalers and 

retailers. The company globally sells its ride control 

products primarily under the well-recognized Monroe® 

brand name. On the emissions control side of the 

business, Tenneco Automotive sells its products under 

the Walker®, and GilletTM brand names. 

Xerox Corporation 

Xerox Corporation has successfully transformed itself 

into a digital, color, and document solutions and 

services company. Today's Xerox offers expertise in 

the production and management of documents 

including color and black-and-white, digital and paper, 

across networks or on a desktop, in a commercial print 

facility or a quick-print shop, and for the small office or 

the global enterprise. Xerox employs more than 67,000 

employees and provides sales and service to 

customers in more than 120 countries around the 

world. Xerox recognizes its commitment to the 

protection of the environment and the health and 

safety of its employees, customers, and neighbors 

worldwide. Xerox operations are guided by an 

environmental goal that can be articulated in a few 

words: making Waste-Free Products in Waste-Free 

Factories, to help customers attain Waste-Free 

Workplaces. For more than a decade, deployment of 

the Waste-Free concept has resulted in dramatic 

improvements in the environmental performance of 

Xerox's factories and products. Air emissions have 

been reduced by 89 percent since 1991, and factory 

recycling rates are 90 percent. In addition, Xerox saves 

several hundred million dollars through product 

remanufacturing and parts reuse initiatives, diverting 

well over 100 million pounds of waste from landfills 

annually. 

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