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Green Club an EPA charade
The EPA touts the perk-filled program, but has recruited some firms with dismal environmental records.
"Sure will up the numbers for Performance Track!!"
Performance Track employees have struggled to come up with success stories, records show. In 2006, when a staffer went looking for examples of environmental good deeds, she came up short.
"Pickings were slim," she reported to a colleague in an internal e-mail. "I won't be able to come up with other examples . . . because most companies do not provide very good information on HOW they accomplished their achievements."
In fact, environmental gains achieved by Performance Track members are, in many cases, underwhelming.
A new Performance Track member, Rio Grande Village Store & RV Park in Texas, announced that its goal would be "turning off all equipment when not being used, computers on power saving mode. . . . "
And in Fife, Wash., the postal distribution facility said that among its environmental "goals," it would recycle plastic - and undeliverable bulk mail.
Contact staff writer John Sullivan at 215-854-2473 or johnsullivan@phillynews.com.
