Thirty years since the founding of EPA’s first voluntary climate initiative, Green Lights, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is celebrating the legacy and impacts of its highly successful climate partnership programs. Through these programs, tens of thousands of public- and private-sector organizations have joined forces with the government and prevented more than 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from nearly every sector of the economy—a total which exceeds all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2019. (Source: EPA)