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January 18, 2006 Rumsey Engineers Joins Chicago Climate Exchange Oakland, CA - Rumsey Engineers today announced its membership in the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a voluntary, legally binding, multi-sector market for reducing and trading greenhouse gas emissions trading system. Through CCX Associate Membership in CCX, Rumsey Engineers will commit to buy and retire CCX Carbon Financial Instruments to offset their annual greenhouse gas footprint. This funds various carbon dioxide reduction initiatives, including landfill and agricultural methane destruction, carbon sequestration in forestry projects and agricultural soils, fuel switching; and renewable energy. This will offset the company's greenhouse-gas impact by essentially eliminating 40 metric tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide that the company is responsible for annually that would otherwise contribute to global warming. The company's decision to participate in the exchange Exchange is consistent with its sustainable and resource-efficient design practices. CCX is a self-regulatory exchange that administers the world's first multi-national, multi-sector marketplace for reducing and trading greenhouse gas emissions. CCX represents the first legally binding commitment by a cross-section of North American corporations, municipalities and other institutions to establish a rules-based market for reducing greenhouse gases. CCX enables members Members to receive credit for reductions, and to buy and sell credits to determine the most cost-effective means of achieving emission reductions. "CCX membership for us is a way to demonstrate the feasibility of such an exchange for even small companies like ours. By supporting this program, we feel that we're doing our part to catch up with the rest of the world in taking steps to combat global warming. What a lot of people don't realize is that even though global warming seems like an almost insurmountably immense problem, individual companies and governments taking positive actions really can have a measurable effect over the long term." said Peter Rumsey, principal of Rumsey Engineers. Dr. Richard L. Sandor, CEO and Chairman of CCX, stated, "As leaders in energy efficient and sustainable design, Rumsey Engineers are integral to any solution to the issue of climate change. We commend Rumsey Engineers for being the first business in Oakland to fully offset their own greenhouse gas footprint by joining CCX." About Rumsey Engineers Rumsey Engineers, Inc., is a Bay Area based design engineering firm with offices in Oakland, California. The firm specializes in innovative HVAC system solutions for the most demanding installations-including 'green' buildings and critical clean room environments. The company's philosophy is that the best design is simple, elegant and results in substantially lower energy costs. About Chicago Climate Exchange CCX is North America's only, and the world's first, legally binding multi-sectoral, rule-based and integrated greenhouse gas emission registry, reduction and trading system. CCX Members represent a cross-section of major public and private sector North American entities, including Abitibi-Consolidated, Manitoba Hydro, Ford Motor, International Paper, IBM, American Electric Power, cities such as Chicago, Oakland, Boulder, Portland and the State of New Mexico as well as non-industrial environmental innovators such as World Resources Institute, Pax World and the Rocky Mountain Institute. Reductions achieved through the CCX market are significant in scale and impact. CCX Members gain practical experience by building an efficient emissions management and monitoring system, while also acquiring cutting edge measurement and trading skills that will be needed in short and long term as the world comes to terms with the climate change challenge. The Chairman and CEO of CCX is economist and financial innovator Dr. Richard L. Sandor, who was named a Hero of the Planet by Time magazine for his work in founding CCX. For more information, please visit www.chicagoclimateexchange.com.
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