Volume 157, No. 66 covering the 1st Session of the 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“APPLAUDING THE UPPER MERION SCHOOL DISTRICT” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E899-E900 on May 13, 2011.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
APPLAUDING THE UPPER MERION SCHOOL DISTRICT
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HON. PATRICK MEEHAN
of pennsylvania
in the house of representatives
Friday, May 13, 2011
Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to applaud the Upper Merion School District of Pennsylvania for winning an Environmental Achievement Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Upper Merion was recognized for being a 2010 ENERGY STAR leader and for reducing its energy consumption by more than 30 percent, an achievement reached by only about a dozen of the Nation's 15,000 school districts. All six of Upper Merion's schools have earned the ENERGY STAR rating and several buildings have energy reductions near 50 percent. The district has also embarked on an aggressive recycling program that has resulted in about 50 percent of its solid waste being recycled instead of going to the landfill. I am proud to represent the citizens of Upper Merion in Congress, and their example of stewardship--of a community taking local initiative to reduce their environmental impact--is a model of bottom-up sustainability that municipalities across America should strive to emulate.
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