Achievements

Clean Air Works! influenced behavioral and operational changes to capture a reduction of more than 5 million vehicle miles of travel, eliminating 365,026 trips, and reductions of more than 115,843 pounds of NOx.  There are currently 118 employer partners participating in the effort. Learn more about Clean Air Works! accomplishments in the 2006-2010 Clean Air Works! Program Summary. 

Partner Highlights

• Citi Fort Mill’s anti-idling policy saves more than 775 minutes of idling each week.

• Sherpa and NewDominion Bank challenged each other to a Summer Trip Challenge, in which employees eliminated nearly 8,700 miles!  This kept 5,651 grams of NOx emissions and 7,764 grams of volatile organic compounds (VOC) from being formed.

• Duke Energy and law-firm Moore & Van Allen began offering 100% transit and vanpool subsidies to all employees, as part of Clean Air Works!.

• NewDominion Bank’s promotions of teleworking and carpooling reduced 11,375 miles!

• American & Efird’s Try It Day promotions drew steadily greater participation — in one year alone, more than 200 employees were rewarded for trying a new commute! 

• Ritz-Carlton Hotel’s first initiative, a Refuel After 6 PM Raffle, yielded 240 receipts in one month.

• AT&T and Bissell Companies introduced alternative scheduling to reduce the time employees spend on the road during peak hours.

• BaxterHarris linked employee bonuses to their facility’s energy efficiency and emissions reductions.

More than 5 million miles Avoided!

Clean Air Works! project participants tracked their commutes by going on line and recording how they traveled to work.  By changing their travel behavior, participants reduced or avoided more than five million miles and reduced more than 2,000 tons of ozone-forming pollution from our air. 

Fewer miles on the road means fewer emissions from the tailpipe.  And fewer emissions means better air for all of us in the greater Charlotte region.