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Glenn Mahone/Doc Mirelson               May 5, 2003
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

Mark Hess
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-8955)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-048

NASA USING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE AT SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

     NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Todd Whitman 
will open a new chapter in environmental history Thursday.

The two administrators will take part in a ribbon-cutting 
ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT May 8 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight 
Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Md., to recognize the first federal 
government facility to use landfill gas for energy. Officials 
from Prince George's County (PGC), Md., and Dallas-based Toro 
Energy, Inc., will join Administrators O'Keefe and Whitman. 

To attend the event, media should contact GSFC public affairs 
by noon Wednesday, May 7, at: 301/286-8955. Send facsimile 
requests to: 301/286-1707. 

PGC and Toro officials will lead a tour of the Sandy Hills 
Landfill in Bowie, Md., the source of the gas used at GSFC, 
after the event. 

The landfill gas project was completed under a utility 
services contract between GSFC and Toro Energy, Inc. EPA's 
Landfill Methane Outreach Program is a voluntary assistance 
and partnership program that promotes the use of landfill gas 
as a renewable energy source.  

For more information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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