SACRAMENTO – Governor Gray Davis recently announced the winners of the 2002 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Awards. California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) Secretary Winston H. Hickox and Secretary for Resources Mary Nichols presented the awards at the Cal/EPA Headquarters Building in Sacramento.
This year’s Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Awards recognize outstanding contributions by 14 companies, organizations or government offices in five fields. Recipients are chosen from California for excellence in protecting the environment and conserving natural resources, while promoting compatible, sustainable economic development.
The 2002 recipients include:

• Adopt-A-Watershed (San Francisco-based/Statewide)
• Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Fairfield Brewery
• Association of Bay Area Governments – Bay Area Green Business Program (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, and Sonoma Counties)
• Blue Ridge/Berryessa Natural Area Conservation Partnership (Solano, Napa, Yolo, Lake and Colusa Counties)
• Chino Basin Organics Management Strategy (San Bernardino Co.)
• County of Alameda – Energy Program (Alameda Co.)
• Placer Legacy Open Space and Agricultural Conservation Program (Placer Co.)
• Santa Clara Valley Water District – Educational Outreach Program (Santa Clara Co.)
• Spenceville Wildlife Area and Mine Reclamation (Nevada County)
• Thanksgiving Coffee Company – Mendocino
• TreePeople, Inc. – Education Programs (Los Angeles)
• Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District (Solano County)
• Wells Fargo Bank – Energy Conservation/Energy Awareness Training (Statewide)
• Yosemite Concession Services Corp. – GreenPath Environmental Management System (Mariposa County)

A full description of the recipients of this year’s awards can be found at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/awards/GEELA/default.htm