Our project with FedEx Express and Eaton Corporation to develop a cleaner delivery truck is winning healthier air for communities and recognition from prestigious organizations.

The project marks the first time that hybrid electric technology has been commercially applied to the medium-duty truck market.  The benefits to the environment and human health will be measured through significant reductions in air emissions and increased fuel efficiency.

• Harvard's Roy Family Environmental Award (2005): The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has recognized our partnership with FedEx Express and Eaton Corporation, through its biyearly award given to "an outstanding partnership that enhances environmental quality through the use of novel and creative approaches." Thirty expert reviewers picked our project from a global list. One award reviewer called it "creative in its use of the market to achieve environmental goals.  It gets beyond rhetoric and adversarial confrontation and demonstrates effective NGO and private sector partnership."

• Clean Air Excellence Award (2004): The Environmental Protection Agency awarded Environmental Defense and our partners, FedEx Express and Eaton Corporation, with its distinguished award recognizing and honoring "outstanding, innovative efforts that help to make progress in achieving cleaner air." EPA choose the project from among 100 candidates.

• Tech Museum Award Finalist (2003): Environmental Defense was one of the five finalists for the Intel Environment Award, given by Silicon Valley's Tech Museum of Innovation for "developing or using technologies that ensure and protect our planet's ecosystems."