Bartow resident eliminates 25,000 pounds of pollution

 Clean Air Campaign commuter services coordinator, Raina Sayer (far left) and employer program manager, Jay Gilliam (far right) recognized Cobb EMC employees (L-R) Dan Wooten of Rydal, Randy McCoy of Dallas, Milton Griffith of Acworth and David Hoggard of Dallas with Clean Air Commuter Champion Awards for eliminating 25,000 pounds of air pollution in 2011.

 

Media release: Three Cobb EMC Employees this month received the Clean Air Campaign's coveted Clean Air Commuter Champion Award, which is given out in recognition of employees who eliminated more than 25,000 pounds of air pollution in 2011.

 

Rydal's Dan Wooten, forestry foreman, Milton Griffith, forestry superintendent, and Randy McCoy, forestry superintendent, were each presented a certificate, a letter of recognition for their employer and small gifts from Jay Gilliam, employer program manager for The Clean Air Campaign.

David Hoggard, work management system administrator at Cobb EMC, was presented two plaques recognizing Cobb EMC employee Commuter Champions and Cobb EMC as a Clean Air Campaign Platinum Partner. Hoggard, a native of Dallas, Ga. and Wooten, who resides in Rydal, Ga., both commute in two of Cobb EMC's five vanpools, while Griffith and McCoy carpool together from Acworth, Ga. and Dallas, Ga., respectively.

Cobb EMC has made continued and company-wide efforts to help the environment and increase productivity through clean commuting. As a Platinum Partner, more than 20 percent of Cobb EMC employees' trips to worksites involve alternatives to driving alone, and the company now has 220 employees that participate in carpools, vanpools or compressed workweeks.