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Measuring Our Progress

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St. Louis employee Mark Stevens is managing an innovative recycling program to minimize hazardous waste in the St. Louis area.

Since 2002, Boeing has reduced carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption by nearly one-third and cut water intake and hazardous-waste generation by more than 40 percent, as measured on a revenue-adjusted basis.

Data reported in this section reflects environmental performance at the following core metric sites, which represents the vast majority of Boeing’s operating locations in the United States:

Alabama: Huntsville
Arizona: Mesa
California: Anaheim; El Segundo; Huntington Beach; and Boeing Defense, Space & Security operations in Long Beach
Kansas: Wichita (Boeing Defense, Space & Security operations only)
Missouri: St. Charles and St. Louis
Oregon: Portland
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
Texas: Houston and San Antonio
Washington: Auburn, Developmental Center, Everett, Frederickson, Kent Space Center, North Boeing Field/Plant 2 and Renton

"Boeing has been recognized as part of our Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index
in both our global and U.S. market samples for two consecutive years, demonstrating
best practice in transparency on climate change risk, opportunity and GHG
emissions accounting. We applaud Boeing's efforts to inform their investors and
other stakeholders of their activities to address climate change via CDP."
— Paul Simpson, CEO, Carbon Disclosure Project

In some cases, data from additional sites and office locations are included in the reported value. When that occurs, it is noted in the footnotes accompanying data tables and graphs throughout this Environment Report.

Currently, we do not report carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, water intake, hazardous waste generation and recycling rates at Boeing South Carolina. We intend to begin reporting data for Boeing South Carolina once the site starts final assembly and delivery of 787s. It is anticipated that environmental performance data for Boeing South Carolina will be included in the 2012 Environment Report.

In our 2010 Environment Report, Boeing provided aggregate data for emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and volatile organic compounds for those manufacturing sites that exceeded local, state and/or national thresholds for filing public reports. The sites that are required to report vary widely in each calendar year. Consequently, while Boeing continues to report this information to local, state and national authorities, we have elected not to provide aggregate data in this year's Environment Report as it does not provide meaningful year-over-year comparative data to track performance.

The graphs on the following pages are labeled with information rounded to two or three decimal places. However, graphs throughout this Environment Report are calculated using actual values. Consequently, some slight variation may occur for the purpose of creating visual presentations.

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