Congrats to our Conservation Director Cyrus Reed!
This week, he received the coveted “Gregg Cooke Award for Excellence in Environmental Leadership,” at the Texas Energy Summit, an annual state-wide conference hosted in Houston this year.
Lone Star Chapter Conservation Director Cyrus Reed (left) accepting his award from Doug Lewin (right), Executive Director of the 2018 Texas Energy Summit
The award is named for former U.S. Region VI EPA Administrator Gregg Cooke, who passed away in 2006. It is given to an individual or group for “Community service and consummate advocacy dedicated to advancing energy efficiency, renewable energy and championing sustainability while creating economic opportunity and cleaner air.”
The Texas Energy Summit, formerly known as the “Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency” Conference, is hosted by the Energy Systems Laboratory at Texas A&M University Systems, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station.
“It is a great honor to me personally to receive this award in the name of Gregg Cooke, who worked tirelessly in a bipartisan way to help reduce transportation and industrial emissions, increase energy efficiency efforts and improve air quality,” said Cyrus Reed.
“Here in Texas, the Sierra Club has been successful in working with our political leaders and many stakeholders in creating statewide programs and efforts like the Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), statewide energy (building) codes, energy efficiency programs at our utilities, and an electric grid that is allowing solar and wind to come on in huge amounts. But we must continue to make progress, coming up with Texas solutions that will work for all Texans to clean our grid, our transportation systems, and our buildings.”