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Tzu Chi receives environmental award
STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA
Wednesday, Apr 18, 2007, Page 4
The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation received an Environmental Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a spokesman of the foundation said yesterday.
The Environmental Award ceremony was held yesterday at the EPA building in San Francisco.
The spokesman said the awards are given each year by the EPA's Region 9 to groups or individuals who made contributions to public health or the environment in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, or the Pacific Islands.
A total of 160 groups and individuals were nominated.
Among them, Tzu Chi was nominated by the director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment, Jared Blumenfeld. It was one of the seven winners in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of 38 winners in the region this year, the spokesman said.
The foundation started a recycling project in 1990, the spokesman said.
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