New York, New York

This facility features the following green attributes:
Green Power
ENERGY STAR

Region 2 Office

Total Facility Area: 315,320 rentable square feet (RSF) (EPA share)
Estimated Personnel: 851 EPA personnel
Energy Consumption: 26,223,736,229 Btu per year (EPA share)
Btu per RSF per Year: 83,165
Water Consumption: 4,160,057 gallons per year
Gallons per RSF per Year: 13.19

All energy and water data are reported as of FY 2010.

Description

EPA's Region 2 serves New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and seven Tribal Nations. The Region 2 Headquarters in New York is the first EPA regional office to be completely powered by wind-generated electricity.

Awards

Don Pace received a fiscal year (FY) 2010 Carbon Cutter Award for providing excellent employee commuting data and thorough supporting information for EPA’s Region 2 Office. This commuting data accounted for nearly 700 EPA employees, enabling EPA to more accurately quantify Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from commuting and help establish the Agency’s FY 2008 Scope 3 GHG emissions baseline.

Unique Environmental Features

Energy Conservation

The Foley Square Federal Office Building, where Region 2 is housed, earned the ENERGY STAR^® building label in 1999 with a score of 79, in 2006 with a score of 75, and again in 2010 with a score of 75.
Average energy use at this building is approximately 71,900 Btu per square foot per year. For more information, visit ENERGY STAR's^® Profile of the Foley Square Federal Office Building.

Green Power

EPA offsets 100 percent of the electricity consumption at the Region 2 office with renewable energy certificates (RECs) purchased through the Agency's current blanket green power contract. Learn more about EPA's current and past blanket green power contracts.

For More Information About This Facility

Website: www.epa.gov/region2

Rodney Dorwin (dorwin.rodney@epa.gov)
Chief of Facilities
290 Broadway
New York, NY 10007-1866
Phone: (212) 637-3333