WEST GREENWICH – Amgen Inc. was honored this month for its resource conservation program at the Environment Council of Rhode Island’s ninth annual Senator John H. Chafee Conservation Leadership Awards.
The pharmaceutical company received the “Outstanding Award” for its conservation program, which reduced water use by 150,000 gallons per day at Amgen’s West Greenwich facility, and electrical consumption by 2.2 million kilowatt hours per year last year.
At the same time, Amgen boosted its recycling rate to more than half of its refuse.
Other winners of the Environment Council’s annual awards included the Little Compton Agricultural Conservancy Trust; Fidelity Investments Wildlife at Work Program; and Scituate High School Community Energy Project.
Zechariah Chafee, assistant United States attorney for Rhode Island and son of the late environmental leader Senator John Chafee, handed out the awards, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was the keynote speaker.
Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN) – based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., with operations in 10 other U.S. locations, including West Greenwich – develops and produces new medicines for human use. Additional information is available at www.amgen.com.
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The Environment Council of Rhode Island is the Rhode Island affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation. It was founded in 1972 (to replace the Rhode Island Wildlife Federation, which was founded in 1938) and is a coalition of organizations and individuals that advocate for policies and laws that protect and enhance the environment. For more information, go to www.environmentcouncilri.org.
