The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that Goldschmidt Industrial Chemical Corp. of McDonald, Pa is one of 42 new members of EPA’s Performance Track Program bringing total membership nationwide to over 500.

Nineteen facilities in Pennsylvania now belong to the program.

Performance Track recognizes facilities that have a strong record of environmental compliance, set three-year goals for continuous improvements in environmental performance beyond their legal requirements, have internal systems in place to manage their environmental impacts, engage in community outreach and consistently report results.

Performance Track facilities must meet all environmental regulatory requirements and typically set four goals for environmental improvement (facilities with less than 50 full-time employees set two goals).

Since the 2000 launch of this facility-based program, Performance Track membership has grown to 538 members in 49 states and Puerto Rico, and those members have set more than 3,500 goals to benefit the environment in both regulated and unregulated areas.

Through goals that have been set since the inception of the program, Performance Track members have reported greenhouse gas reductions of 310,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, reductions in nitrogen oxides of 13,000 tons, and reductions of hazardous waste of 52,000 tons.

For more information, visit EPA’s Performance Track Program webpage.

2/22/2008