10.30.2006 - 08:00am ET

(CSRwire) [Cohoes NY] -- Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. today announced that effective this month, it has partnered with NativeEnergy to offset CO2 emissions from its 2006 Sales Fleet and Local Product Transport.

Mohawk calculated the mileage of its sales force and local product transportation in 2006, estimated at close to one million miles (971,000 miles to be exact) or the equivalent of 748 tons of CO2. Carbon offsets enable people and organizations to reduce their carbon footprint by allowing carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases, to be either taken out of the atmosphere or reduced in another part of the country or world.

"Mohawk has always had a strong commitment to sustainable manufacturing and being a responsible corporate citizen," said Thomas D. O'Connor, Jr., Chairman and CEO. "Partnering with NativeEnergy is one more we way we are building on that commitment. By offsetting our carbon outputs, in a way that brings new clean energy projects into being, we are taking responsibility for helping to combat global warming. Climate change is a major issue for everyone and we are beginning to organize many of our own sustainability initiatives around it."

"Mohawk is the first US paper mill dedicated to helping build truly new renewable energy projects in this manner. Without the support of Mohawk and our other clients, these distributed wind projects face significant hurdles -- high costs for the farmers but poor chances of recovering the extra costs from the traditional REC market, given their relatively small annual output," says Tom Boucher, President & CEO, NativeEnergy. "Our novel approach of aggregating their lifetime REC output into a single up front purchase is just the solution they need."

Mohawk invites businesses and consumers everywhere to take the same proactive approach and visit www.NativeEnergy.com to offset their travel, auto, home or business emissions by helping to build new renewable energy projects that reduce the amount of fossil fuels used to generate electricity.

About Mohawk Fine Papers

For more information visit www.mohawkpaper.com or call 1-800 the mill.

Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. is the largest manufacturer of premium printing, writing and imaging papers in the country. Flagship grades include Strathmore®, Mohawk Superfine™, Beckett®, BriteHue®, Via®, Mohawk Color Copy® and patented Inxwell® products, Navajo® and Options®. Mohawk engineers its papers to provide optimal performance for sheetfed, web and digital printing. Mohawk papers are used in a wide variety of communications including prestigious annual reports, corporate identity systems, high-end brochures, packaging and everyday communication for businesses of all sizes and types. A leader in environmental stewardship, Mohawk is the first large-scale production facility in the U.S. to use non-polluting wind energy to manufacture paper.

About NativeEnergy

American Indian majority-owned, NativeEnergy is a leading national marketer of renewable energy credits or "green tags," offering individuals and organizations a means to compensate for their global warming pollution, or to effectively power their homes and businesses with renewable energy. NativeEnergy's patent-pending business process brings upfront payment to renewable projects for their estimated future green tag output, enabling its customers to help directly finance the construction of specific new wind farms and other renewable energy projects, such as tribal wind projects and methane digesters and wind turbines on America's family dairy farms. These projects reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to meet the nation's electricity needs. NativeEnergy is the choice of leading environmentally and socially responsible organizations, including the film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (www.ClimateCrisis.net), Ben & Jerry's, Clif Bar, Stonyfield Farm, Interface, Aveda, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Co-op America, NRDC, the Clinton Global Initiative, Bonnaroo Festival, and thousands of individuals. NativeEnergy also offers Green-e certified green tags from operating wind farms and Climate Neutral Network certified offsets from operating CO2 mitigation projects. For more information, visit NativeEnergy online at http://www.nativeenergy.com.

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