EMC Publishes 2011 Sustainability Report

EMC Press Release

EMC Publishes 2011 Sustainability Report

Offers Insight into 2011 Challenges and Achievements, Foundation for Sustainability Practices in 2012 and Beyond

HOPKINTON, Mass. - July 9, 2012

News Summary:

• EMC Corporation today announced that the company's 2011 Sustainability Report is now available on EMC's website at:
  http://www.emc.com/about/sustainability/sustainability-reports.htm
• The theme of this year's report is "Transformation with Purpose," highlighting EMC's focus on sustaining ecosystems; delivering value for customers, key stakeholders and the world at large through the transformative potential of IT; and strengthening the communities in which EMC operates.
• EMC's Sustainability Report explores the company's strategies, achievements and overall progress with regard to its sustainability priorities, organized in three pillars: Sustaining Ecosystems, Delivering Value, and Strengthening Communities.

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that the availability of the company's 2011 Sustainability Report. The theme of this year's report is "Transformation with Purpose," exploring EMC's strategies, achievements and overall progress with regard to its sustainability priorities that include:

• Sustaining Ecosystems: How EMC is optimizing operations, engaging with suppliers, and leveraging the transformative power of the company's employees and technology to address the impacts of our business and value chain on both the environment and people.
• Delivering Value: How EMC is delivering value for our customers, employees and investors in all aspects of the business, and how the company is innovating to meet customer needs, cultivating a collaborative and inclusive workplace, and building open and honest relationships with all of its stakeholders.
• Strengthening Communities: How EMC is playing an important role in strengthening and transforming communities around the world through education partnerships, community involvement, the EMC Academic Alliance and Information Heritage programs, and support for non-profit organizations.

EMC's 2011 Sustainability Report Highlights

Using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 framework, the report highlights EMC's continued commitment to sustainability and to communicating the company's progress in a number of ways, including:

• Engaging directly with external stakeholders to assess the sustainability issues with the greatest potential for EMC to have an impact
• Incorporating visual dashboards to depict year-over-year performance
• Providing an expanded analysis of EMC's Scope 3 GHG emissions and GHG goal-setting process
• Sharing results from product lifecycle environmental assessments
• Reporting EMC's priorities for public policy engagement

EMC Executive Quotes

Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO

"EMC customers want smarter ways to manage their data securely while reducing energy consumption and packaging materials sent to landfills. EMC's 2011 Sustainability Report outlines how we are working with suppliers and customers to improve the sustainability and energy efficiency of our operations, products and packaging, and how the analysis of Big Data holds the potential to improve human health and quality of life around the world. The gains we've achieved in these arenas give our business the momentum we need to become even more sustainable in the years ahead."

Kathrin Winkler, EMC Chief Sustainability Officer

"Throughout this report, we share our sustainability objectives and our successes, but also many of the challenges we're facing. I'm especially proud of the extent to which this report tells the stories of employees throughout the company who are assessing, managing and incorporating environmental and social impacts into the decisions they make every day."

For a copy of EMC’s Sustainability Report, please visit:

http://www.emc.com/2011sustainabilityreport

Additional Resources:

• EMC Chief Sustainability Officer Kathrin Winkler's blog
• Learn more about EMC's sustainability programs and initiatives
• Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

News Release from EPA Region 7 - Sutherland, Nebraska

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7

901 N. Fifth St., Kansas City, KS 66101

Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations

EPA Provides Technical Assistance to Sutherland, Neb.

Contact Information: Ben Washburn, 913-551-7364, washburn.ben@epa.gov

Environmental News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Kansas City, Kan., March 15, 2012) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 announced that the Village of Sutherland, Nebraska, recently received technical assistance from EPA that will help the village become more sustainable. The assistance came in the form of a comprehensive report that provided the means for Sutherland to redevelop a number of former gas stations in its downtown.

At the core of the technical assistance are four abandoned gas stations located along U.S. Highway 30, which runs through downtown Sutherland and is the former Lincoln Highway. The abandoned gas stations may pose potential environmental and public health hazards due to underground storage tanks that remained after the stations closed. By addressing the tanks, including potential contamination and liability issues, these sites can be made viable for reuse that benefits the community while removing community eyesores and transforming the sites into community assets. The redevelopment of these sites can spur further revitalization in the area.

“The technical assistance provided to the Village of Sutherland allows the community leaders to restore four Brownfields properties to beneficial use for the community,” said Karl Brooks, EPA Region 7 Administrator. “This is a clear example that shows how being environmentally conscious can bring positive growth and development for our small rural communities.”

The project location was identified through the EPA Region 7 inventory of abandoned gas stations situated along the historic Lincoln Highway (U.S. Highway 30). EPA, in partnership with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Program, provided redevelopment planning support to village officials as they plan to revitalize the downtown community, including the four former downtown gas station sites that serve as gateways to the community.

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EPA Releases New Water Pollution Tool

News Release form EPA Headquarters:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 25, 2012

EPA Releases New Tool with Information about Water Pollution Across the U.S.

EPA to host webinar on how to use tool to access information on pollutants released into local waterways

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a new tool that provides the public with important information about pollutants that are released into local waterways. Developed under President Obama’s transparency initiative, the Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Pollutant Loading Tool brings together millions of records and allows for easy searching and mapping of water pollution by local area, watershed, company, industry sector, and pollutant. Americans can use this new tool to protect their health and the health of their communities.

“Transparency leads to greater accountability and better information about pollution in our nation’s communities,” said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “By making the data we collect available in easy to use tools, we are keeping Americans informed about the health of the environment in their neighborhoods.”

Searches using the DMR Pollutant Loading Tool result in “top ten” lists to help users easily identify facilities and industries that are discharging the most pollution and impacted waterbodies. When discharges are above permitted levels, users can view the violations and link to details about enforcement actions that EPA and states have taken to address these violations.

Facilities releasing water pollution directly into our nation’s waterways, such as wastewater treatment plants or industrial manufacturers, must receive a permit to discharge under the Clean Water Act. Each permit sets specific limits for how much can be discharged. It also requires the permittee to frequently sample their wastewater discharges and report the data to their state or EPA permitting authority.

A link to the new tool can be found on EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) website, which provides information about inspections, facility compliance, and state and federal enforcement actions. EPA has also released several new ECHO features, including a search for criminal enforcement cases and web developer tools that make it easy to tap into ECHO reports and maps.

Information about the webinar:

WHAT: A webinar to demonstrate how to use the new Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Pollutant Loading Tool.

WHO: Members of the media, non-profit organizations, industry, business, and citizens interested in learning how to use the tool are encouraged to participate.

WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 2012, 10 a.m., Eastern Time

HOW: To participate, please use the following dial-in numbers.

Audio Contact Instruction:

(1) Dial the toll-free dial-in number: (866) 358 1366

(2) At the recorded prompt, enter the Conference Code (2025661014) and the "#" sign, using the telephone keypad.
(3) Wait for the Leader to join and the conference to begin.
(4) To disconnect, hang up the telephone.

To access the Webinar use GoToWebinar link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/192410536

*** YOU MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE TO ACCESS THE WEBINAR***

DMR Pollutant Loading Tool: http://www.epa.gov/pollutantdischarges

ECHO: http://www.epa-echo.gov/echo

More information about new features in ECHO: http://www.epa-echo.gov/echo/recent_additions.html