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Performance Track and Climate Change
Key Resources
Performance Track Results: Members' Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions
Performance Track Challenge Goals to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
Performance Track Environmental Performance Table: Indicator Definitions (PDF) (42 pp, 240K) (see page 14 for guidance on greenhouse gas emissions).
Although EPA's National Environmental Performance Track program was not designed specifically to address climate change, reducing greenhouse gases is one of the most common air emissions goals set by Performance Track members.
From 2000-2006, 61 facilities in the program reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 309,780 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent—an amount equal to the annual emissions of 57,000 cars. Many of the energy- and waste-related goals set by Performance Track members also contribute directly toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
All told, more than 500 member goals address climate change either directly or indirectly.
Selected Emissions Reductions Achieved and Planned by Performance Track Members
- Johnson & Johnson's Pharmaceutical Research and Development facility in San Diego, California, achieved carbon neutrality through purchasing carbon offsets and installed a natural gas cogeneration unit to decrease greenhouse gas emissions per unit of power.
- Rohm and Haas' facility in Kankakee, Illinois, encouraged behavioral changes and converted to more efficient technologies that led to a 28 percent reduction in energy use and a 21 percent reduction in energy-related greenhouse gas emissions generation.
- PerkinElmer Optoelectronics in Salem, Massachusetts, reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent by participating in EPA’s Green Power Partnership, using a system to control lighting and heating, installing compact fluorescent lights, and other energy efficiency improvements.
- The U.S. Department of Energy's West Valley Demonstration Project in West Valley, New York, employed energy conservation practices and technologies to achieve a 26 percent reduction in non-transportation energy use.
- The Global Pharmaceutical Supply Group, a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies and located in Vacaville, California, constructed a 1-Megawatt solar array that will provide approximately one-third of the facility's peak power demand, saving roughly $300,000 in energy costs per year, creating enough electricity to run 250 homes, and reducing CO2 emissions from the facility by 1.4 million pounds annually. The Vacaville array is Johnson & Johnson’s ninth solar installation in the United States, bringing the company’s total installed capacity to 3.5 Megawatts