EPA, Doe Present Energy Star Label for Buildings to Milwaukee Public Schools and to Milwaukee and Madison U.S. Courthouses

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EPA, Doe Present Energy Star Label for Buildings to Milwaukee Public Schools

and to Milwaukee and Madison U.S. Courthouses

CHICAGO, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today presented Energy Star Labels for

Buildings to Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), the historic Milwaukee U.S.

Courthouse, and the W. Kastenmeir U.S. Courthouse in Madison, WI,

recognizing them as some of America's most energy-efficient facilities.

Francis X. Lyons, administrator of EPA's Great Lakes Region, and Juli

Pollitt, acting director of DOE's Chicago Regional Office, presented the

Energy Star Labels to MPS and The General Services Administration (GSA) at

an 11 a.m. ceremony in the atrium of The U.S. Courthouse in Milwaukee. GSA

is the agency that manages the courthouse buildings.

MPS is the first school district in the Midwest to qualify any of its

buildings, and Milwaukee's historical 101-year-old U.S. Courthouse is the

first courthouse in Wisconsin to earn the label.

Energy Star offers the only national rating system for energy performance in

buildings, recognizing them for having overall energy performance among the

top 25 percent of all similar-use buildings nationally.

Energy Star is also the latest in a series of EPA common sense market- based

partnership programs that spur investments in more energy efficient, cleaner

technologies.

" EPA applauds the Milwaukee Public Schools and the General Services

Administration for joining a program that is not only good for the

environment, but for our agencies, employees, taxpayers, our schools, and

our children, " EPA Regional Administrator Lyons said.

These buildings had to also meet tough indoor air quality standards. Some

848,400 square feet have been upgraded in the MPS. The reduction in energy

consumption translates to an air pollution reduction of 9.2 million lb of

carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to planting 1,300 acres of trees (same

as a forest 95O times the size of Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay

Packers), and removing 900 cars from the roads.

About 559,000 combined square feet have been upgraded at the U.S. Courthouse

buildings. The reduction in energy consumption translates to an air

pollution reduction of 4 million lb of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent

to planting a forest the size of 58 Lambeau Fields.

MPS Energy Star recipients are: Latham Sholes Middle School;

Greenleaf Whittier Elementary School; Dover Elementary School; Kagel

Elementary School; Greenfield Montessori Elementary School; Luther Burbank

Elementary School; Hampton Avenue Elementary School; Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elementary School; Henry Longfellow Elementary School; Clemons

Elementary School; Hi-Mount Boulevard Community Elementary School; and

Cullen Elementary School.

SOURCE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

09/19/2000

Technical, Audrie Washington, 312-886-0669, or Media, Omuhundro,

312-353-8254, both of U.S. EPA/ CO: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;

U.S. Department of Energy ST: Wisconsin, Illinois