environment

BATAVIA, Ill. – On Tuesday, May 11, 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Chicago Wilderness presented the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with a 2003 Conservation and Native Landscaping Award at a ceremony in Chicago’s Jackson Park. Bharat Mathur, Acting Regional Administrator for U.S. EPA Region 5, and Elizabeth McCance, Director of Conservation Programs for Chicago Wilderness, cited Fermilab’s achievement in using native plants in the Main Injector Wetland Mitigation Project. “These awards recognize outstanding examples where…

As summer winds down and the tell-tale colors of autumn emerge, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory once again invites its neighbors to help harvest prairie flower seeds as part of its 20-year effort to restore one of the few tallgrass landscapes remaining in all of Illinois.

Renew America, a national nonprofit environmental institution, announced today that the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is a winner in the Seventh Annual Renew America National Awards for Environmental Sustainability.

As cool weather and warm colors herald autumn’s arrival, the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in keeping with a fall tradition, is offering area residents a chance to join in the Laboratory’s annual Prairie Seed Harvest, scheduled for Oct. 7th and 28th.