Greenhouse Gas (GHG): Northrop Grumman has established a five-year goal to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity by 25 percent.
Water and Waste: In 2010, we will be reporting our 2009 baseline data for water usage and solid waste generation and recycling, with the aim to set goals to reduce the Northrop Grumman impact in these areas.
Opportunity Assessments: Northrop Grumman has assessed 57 million square feet of facility space to identify projects to reduce energy usage and associated GHG emissions. This assessment has helped us identify hundreds of candidate projects, and over the next five years we will select and implement those with the most environmental and economic benefits.
Remediation: The company is involved in approximately 200 environmental remediation projects (including Superfund sites) with an approximate annual remediation budget of $40 million. From 2004 to 2009, we completed active remediation at 67 sites and removed them from the company's portfolio. Over that period of time, we also identified $48.9 million in life-cycle cost reductions.
Pollution Prevention Programs: It is our intent to reduce negative impacts to water, soil and air, to recycle waste materials and to conserve energy. To do so, facilities develop and implement pollution-prevention (P2) programs. The company’s policy is to require P2 programs at all sites.
Recycling: Northrop Grumman diverted roughly 63 percent of its total waste away from landfills. Employees across the company recycled paper, cardboard, scrap metal, wood, foundry sand, computers and related equipment, batteries, tires, fluorescent light tubes, mercury thermometers, cables and other items.
In calendar year 2008 alone (the most recent year for which data are currently available), employees throughout Northrop Grumman disposed of 129.2 million pounds of solid waste while recycling 222 million pounds.
Energy Use Reduction: Reducing energy consumption across Northrop Grumman continues to be a key focus through a number of efforts, including the Flexible Office program and the Managed Print Services (MPS) program. By the end of 2009, more than 40 percent of company sites had launched MPS. To date, this program has eliminated approximately 2,000 electronic devices, resulting in a 25 percent reduction in energy consumption and solid waste generation, and a 20 percent reduction in paper use.
Since 2007, Northrop Grumman has replaced more than 292,000 lamps with more efficient bulbs. This represents almost 60 percent of our replaceable lights.
Newsweek Magazine Green Ranking: Northrop Grumman Ranked 51st Among U.S. Companies in Newsweek Magazine Green Ranking
Photo Caption: Northrop Grumman facilities employees Adonis Umana (left) and Carlo Singson (right) collect branches, leaves and other landscaping waste to be broken down and reused as mulch at the company's 58-acre facility in Woodland Hills, Calif. The site was one of several Northrop Grumman locations recognized by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery as a Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) winner for comprehensive waste reduction and recycling activities.