Not Green Enough
(Fox News) - Washington's new baseball stadium is the country's first green sports facility.
Nationals Park is equipped with environmentally friendly light bulbs, water-saving toilets and 95 percent of the stadium's steel was recycled.
But that is not enough for some activists who protested at the park on Friday night. The reason? ExxonMobil oil company is a stadium sponsor.
One protester said: "You cannot be green if your No. 1 advertiser is the world's biggest environmental abuser." And the director of Oil for Change International said: "It's bad enough the Texans have had the White House for the last eight years. It's our stadium and we are not going to let Texas take it again."
But an Exxon spokesman says that in 2007 his company reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 5 million tons, compared to Toyota's claim that it reduced greenhouse gases by 4.5 million tons by selling one million hybrid cars.
Nationals Park is equipped with environmentally friendly light bulbs, water-saving toilets and 95 percent of the stadium's steel was recycled.
But that is not enough for some activists who protested at the park on Friday night. The reason? ExxonMobil oil company is a stadium sponsor.
One protester said: "You cannot be green if your No. 1 advertiser is the world's biggest environmental abuser." And the director of Oil for Change International said: "It's bad enough the Texans have had the White House for the last eight years. It's our stadium and we are not going to let Texas take it again."
But an Exxon spokesman says that in 2007 his company reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 5 million tons, compared to Toyota's claim that it reduced greenhouse gases by 4.5 million tons by selling one million hybrid cars.
posted by BP News Bureau | 3:18 PM
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