The Environmental Business Council of New England announced the winners of the second annual "Best Places to Work" challenge. The participant companies were ranked in five categories: entrepreneurial-size, small-size, medium-size, large-size and most environmentally conscious company. The winners were chosen based on data gathered by the EBC through member company personalized surveys, which all employees from each company were invited to complete. Winners were chosen in each of the five categories and announced at the EBC Annual Meeting on September 19th.

The program also featured a presentation by Senator Marc Pacheco, lead sponsor of the Mass. Global Warming Solutions Act. The act was signed into law in August by governor Patrick, making Mass. a national leader in implementing global warming solutions and committing the state to making the pollution reductions that are necessary to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
The act, which creates a comprehensive approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, empowers the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs to regulate greenhouse gasses from all sources across the commonwealth by mandating a reduction of 80% below 1990 levels by the year 2050 and instructs the administration to develop a shorter-term goal of between 10% and 25% below 1990 levels by the year 2020 as well as limits for 2030 and 2040.  Chuck Raymond and Douglas Larson of Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. the EBC Best Places to Work Award for Medium Sized Co. Lisa Wilk of Capaccio Environmental Engineering, Inc. the EBC Best Places to Work Award for Small Sized Co.
Thomas Mackie and Denise Miller Green of Mackie, Shea, O'Brien, PC the EBC Best Places to Work Award for Most Environmentally Conscious Co.
Mark Campanale and Mike Spinale of Triumvirate Environmental the EBC Best Places to Work Award for Large Sized Co.