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Benchmarking
- Conducted
scores of benchmarking programs for a variety of areas, most recently
on EHS shared services organizational structure. In the process
of doing this, established extensive contacts within industry,
the media, NGO’s, and regulatory agencies, both domestically
and internationally.
Stakeholder Partnerships
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Conceived of, organized and gained board of director management
support for a number of industry firsts. For example:
- Established the first three-way alliance with EPA, Arizona
Department of Environmental Quality;
- Established
the first strategic alliance with the National Parks Service;
- The first utility to sign the Coalition for Environmentally
Responsible Economies (CERES) Principles; and
- Among the first companies accepted to EPA’s Environmental
Leadership Program (ELP).
- Negotiated the first inter-pollutant SO2/CO2 market trade between
two utilities. This concept received international recognition
(e.g., reported in the London Financial Times) market-based.
- Established
a number of university partnerships and intern programs. Examples
include alliances with Yale University, Tufts University, Arizona
State University, and Northeastern University.
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Public Outreach, Green
Marketing & Media Campaigns
- Successfully obtained scores of permits for manufacturing facility
expansions, hazardous waste treatment facility construction
and operation, and site remediations. Many of these involved
potentially volatile, sensitive community relations issues.
- Through a trade association, WEST, led 18 western utilities
in developing a strategy to address regional haze with the Grand
Canyon Visibility Transport commission.
- Reviewed and provided the national television advertising campaigns
of a large multinational.
- Developed the metrics and published the first environmental
report for a western utility.
- Assisted
in the design and structure of a number of hazardous waste site
auditing groups. More recently supported the development of
an auditing group for western utilities.
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