DFW Airport partners with EPA to cut pollution
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the newest partner to join a national effort led by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce harmful chemicals. As part of the
National Partnership for Environmental Priorities, the airport pledged to reduce 940 pounds of pendimethalin and trifluralin found in herbicides used to treat airport grounds.
The National Partnership for Environmental Priorities consists of public and private organizations working with EPA to reduce the use or release of 31 priority chemicals beyond legal requirements. Reducing these chemicals is important because of their ability to build up in the environment, causing harm to humans and the ecosystem.
The airport will cut its priority chemical use through the efforts of its grounds maintenance team, which will replace the current herbicide with one containing less or no pendimethalin and trifluralin.
More than 130 partners across the nation have joined the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities program, which has set a goal to work with industry and the public to reduce the use or release of four million pounds of priority chemicals by 2011. DFW is one of only four airports nationwide to join the NPEP program. It is also the first Texas airport to be admitted into EPA’s prestigious National Environmental Performance Track program for superior environmental performers.
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