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13 Small Businesses and Congregations Awarded for Promoting Energy Efficiency

Release Date: 04/28/2004
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John Millett 202-564-7842 / millett.john@epa.gov

(04/28/04) Today EPA is announcing the 13 small businesses and congregations around the country that are winning ENERGY STAR awards for their contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. Awards are given to individual small businesses and congregations as well as institutions and/or associations that promote energy efficiency among small commercial facilities. The award winners are: Gregory Supply Company of Burlington, Vt., Wingate Inn of Bozeman, Mont. and T & Y Market (formerly Big G Foods) of Sacramento, Calif. The congregational winner was All Saints Parish of Brookline, Mass., and the nonprofit winners were Advocacy of the Visual Arts of Gillette, Wyo., and Energy Trust of Portland, Ore. Also, being recognized for their support of small business and congregational energy efficiency are Alliance for Climate Action, Burlington, Vt., California Interfaith Power and Light, Sacramento, Calif., California Pubic Utility Commission, Sacramento, Calif., New Jersey Partnership for Environmental Quality, Trenton, N.J., Small Business Association of Michigan, Lansing, Mich., National Grid, Westborough, Mass., and United Illuminating Company, New Haven, Conn. For more information go to: http://www.energystar.gov/smallbiz or call 1-888-STAR-YES.