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EPA to Recognize Toyota Manufacturing in Blue Springs, Miss with 2013 Energy Star Partner of the Year award

Release Date: 04/22/2013
Contact Information: Dawn Harris-Young, (404) 562-8421 (Direct), (404) 562-8327 (Main), harris-young.dawn@epa.gov

ATLANTA – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will present the 2013 Energy Star Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence award to Toyota Manufacturing in Blue Springs, Miss. The award ceremony will coincide with Toyota’s Earth Day celebration and the official “turn on” of its new 50kW solar array, one of the largest in the state of Mississippi.

WHO:
Beverly Banister, EPA Regional Air, Pesticides, and Toxics Management Division Director
Trudy Fisher, Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Masa Hamaguchi, President, Toyota Mississippi

WHAT:
2013 Energy Star Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence award

WHEN:
Monday, Apr. 22, 2013, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

WHERE:
1300 Magnolia Way
Blue Springs, Miss.

Toyota will be recognized for its promotion of energy management among manufacturing industries and for continued support of the ENERGY STAR program.

For more than two decades, American consumers and businesses have continued to save energy and protect the environment through the Energy Star program. In 2012 alone, Americans, with the help of Energy Star, saved $24 billion on their energy bills and prevented greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 41 million vehicles. To date, more than 1.3 million new homes and nearly 20,000 office buildings, schools, and hospitals have earned the Energy Star. Since 2000, more than four billion Energy Star certified products have been sold.

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