[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 7306]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              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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