American Whitewater Joins the EPA Green Power Partnership
American Whitewater has joined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their Green Power Partnership. AW has purchased enough
renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Clean
Currents, a leading supplier of wind energy credits, to offset energy usage in our national
office.
Global warming and air pollution
threaten the future of our rivers. Coal for power plants comes from across the US. In the east,
it is often mined through Mountain Top Removal, an environmentally destructive practice that is
harming communities and rivers across Appalachia. In the Colorado River, flows have been well
below average for seven of the past eight years, dropping to just 25 percent of normal for the
year 2002. A National Academy of Science report concludes that average temperatures in the
Colorado River basin are now 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 20th century average and 2.9
degrees warmer than 100 years ago. Less snowmelt in the basin not only impacts the main Colorado
and classic river runs like Cataract Canyon and the Grand Canyon, but also tributary rivers such
as the Yampa, Gunnison and Dolores. Read the Outdoor Alliance climate change white paper here.
About EPA's Green Power Partnership:
The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green
power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. The
Partnership currently has hundreds of partner organizations voluntarily purchasing billions of
kilowatt-hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations
such as Fortune 500 companies, small and medium sized businesses, local, state, and federal
governments, colleges, universities and American Whitewater. For additional information, click
here.