[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 89 (Thursday, June 24, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TRIBUTE TO BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY

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                          HON. JAMES T. WALSH

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 23, 2004

  Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in tribute to the Bristol-Myers 
Squibb Company's Syracuse, New York facility, which will receive the 
2004 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the alternative 
synthetic pathways category presented by the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
  Bristol-Myers Squibb earned this great honor through the development 
of an environmentally friendly synthesis for the cancer drug Taxol 
'. The EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Program 
has been promoting pollution prevention through voluntary partnership 
with the chemical community since 1996. The annual awards recognize 
outstanding accomplishments in the development of chemical technologies 
that incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical 
design, manufacture, and use. To date winning technologies have 
eliminated over 460 million pounds of chemical and solvent pollutants, 
saved over 440 million gallons of water, and eliminated over 170 
million pounds of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions.
  I express my congratulations to the men and women of the Bristol-
Myers Squibb Company in Syracuse for receiving such an outstanding 
honor. Bristol-Myers Squibb has truly shown itself to be a leader in 
environmental technology innovation.

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