Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is a two-time winner of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award (2001 and 2002). They used EPA's national energy performance rating system (www.energystar.gov) to benchmark the energy performance of more than 220 buildings totaling 26 million square feet. Verizon completed full energy audits on more than 100 of their largest facilities and implemented more than 15,000 separate energy management projects. Their efforts in 2002 generated $15 million in annual energy cost savings and avoided 150,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

Verizon is currently working with EPA to develop a benchmarking tool for telecommunications central office facilities, the most energy intensive of all commercial space types. The release of this tool will allow Verizon to expand its benchmarking and performance improvement efforts throughout its central office facilities.

For more information on Verizon's work with ENERGY STAR, contact Blaine Collison at collison.blaine@epa.gov.

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