EPA Recognizes Staples With 2015 Energy Star® Partner Of The Year Sustained Excellence Award
April 06 2015 - 6:57AM
Business Wire
Staples, Inc. Recognized for Fifth
Consecutive Year for Its Sustained Leadership to Protect the
Environment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized
Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) with a 2015 ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year – Sustained Excellence Award for their continued leadership in
protecting our environment through superior energy efficiency
achievements. Staples’s accomplishments will be recognized in
Washington, D.C. on April 20, 2015.
Staples, an ENERGY STAR partner since 2001, will be honored for
its long-term commitment to energy efficiency. This is the fifth
consecutive year Staples has been honored with Energy Star Partner
of the Year Award.
Staples achieved the certification of 625 buildings, and
recertified 225 buildings in 2014. Staples was a strong competitor
in the EPA Better Buildings Challenge committing to reduce energy
intensity 25% by 2020 and to reduce its carbon footprint 50% by
2025. Overall, Staples achieved an 11.3% portfolio-wide reduction
in energy intensity over the past years with its energy efficiency
program including green power investments providing 18 million kWh
of clean energy from solar.
“Staples truly values our partnership with ENERGY STAR,” said
Bob Valair, Director of Energy and Environmental Management.”It’s
exciting to see the impact we’ve made through energy efficiency in
our portfolio of buildings and we remain committed to continuing
our work to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the
environment.”
Since its inception in 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners have
helped prevent a total of more than two billion metric tons of
greenhouse gas emissions. In 2013 alone, ENERGY STAR and its
partners provided more than $11 billion in societal benefits due to
reducing damages from climate change.
“Through their sustained participation with ENERGY STAR, Staples
is helping Americans save money, save energy, and do their part to
reduce our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate
change,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “I applaud Staples
for earning EPA’s highest ENERGY STAR award, the 2015 Partner of
the Year – Sustained Excellence Award, demonstrating a strong
commitment to energy efficiency and to preserving a healthy planet
for future generations.”
The 2015 Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Awards are
given to a variety of organizations to recognize their
contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through superior
energy efficiency achievements. These winners have reduced
greenhouse gas emissions by setting and achieving aggressive goals,
and employing innovative energy efficiency approaches. These awards
recognize ongoing leadership across the ENERGY STAR program,
including energy-efficient products, services, new homes, and
buildings in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors.
For a complete list of 2015 winners and information, and more
information about ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit
www.energystar.gov/awardwinners.
About Staples:
Staples makes it easy to make more happen with more products and
more ways to shop. Through its world-class retail, online and
delivery capabilities, Staples lets customers shop however and
whenever they want, whether it’s in-store, online, on mobile
devices, or through the company’s innovative buy online, pick-up in
store option. Staples offers more products than ever, such as
technology, facilities and breakroom supplies, furniture, safety
supplies, medical supplies, and Copy and Print services.
Headquartered outside of Boston, Staples operates throughout North
and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. More
information about Staples (SPLS) is available at
www.staples.com.
About ENERGY STAR:
ENERGY STAR® is the simple choice for energy efficiency
achievements. For more than 20 years, people across America have
looked to EPA’s ENERGY STAR program for guidance on how to save
energy, save money, and protect the environment. Behind each blue
label is a product, building, or home that is independently
certified to use less energy and cause fewer of the emissions that
contribute to climate change. Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely
recognized symbol for energy efficiency in the world, helping
families and businesses save $300 billion on utility bills, while
reducing greenhouse gas emissions by two billion metric tons since
1992. Join the millions who are already making a difference at
energystar.gov.
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Media Contacts:Staples, Inc.Mark Cautela, (508)
253-3832mark.cautela@staples.comorENERGY STAR Brand ManagerKristinn
Leonhart, (202) 343-9062Leonhart.Kristinn@epa.gov
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