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We build resiliency into our operations by participating in demand-response programs with several New York State energy companies.
Demand response programs pay participants to reduce their electricity use at periods of peak demand.
This helps provide uninterrupted, reliable energy and mitigate the risk of power disruption associated with adverse weather events and other unexpected incidents.
This system of meters and software allows us to monitor real-time energy consumption, identify energy optimization opportunities (for example, replacing air compressors and adding economizers to boilers) and achieve cost savings.
Updates to the EMS must be provided to Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency.
We continue to implement energy efficiency improvements across our operations.
These programmable, energy-efficient windows reduce glare and require less energy to cool a building.
The installations improve occupant comfort and are projected to reap energy savings of between standard windows.
Sustainable Transportation We encourage sustainable transportation through several initiatives offered free of charge to employees.
These include electric vehicle charging stations, commuter benefits, bike storage and shower facilities, shuttle buses, preferred parking for carpool and green vehicles and an online transportation portal.
We have electric vehicle charging stations across our four largest sites.
We offer the WageWorks program to U.S.based employees who use public transportation.
The program allows participants to apply pre-tax dollars to a flexible commuter expense account.
Regeneron also has a Rideshare portal, where colleagues can access sustainable-commuting information such as carpool matching, bike routes, train schedules and Park & Ride locations.
Membership in the Rideshare portal increased by more than one-million vehicle miles and 427 tons of carbon emissions avoided.
Regeneron’s Sleepy Hollow, New York satellite office was built in the when there was little concern for environmental sustainability.
Regeneron began occupying the site in and we have begun to improve the building’s sustainability performance as we renovate and add features that meet or exceed modern standards.
For example, the new rooftop, one-megawatt solar array provides demand and powers the entire building while the sun is shining.
We are researching ways to add more solar power, with the ambition to someday provide all of the building’s electrical needs through solar.
In addition to the environmental benefits, there are significant cost savings as we offset our electric bills with solar energy.
The solar array will have paid for itself by installation.
Our new target, to achieve zero-waste-to-landfill status (excluding construction and demolition waste) at all Regeneron sites by commitment.
Our Rensselaer manufacturing site achieved zero-waste-to-landfill status in which has been zero-waste-to-landfill since opening in 2015.
We continually work with our waste vendors to discuss innovative opportunities to reduce waste and implement more sustainable treatment and transportation methods and destinations.
Our efforts to achieve and maintain our zero-waste goal will also be aided by our ambition to expand composting programs to all Regeneron sites with more than employees.
Our Limerick, Ireland and Rensselaer, New York sites have robust composting programs in place, and our corporate headquarters will introduce onsite composting by employees.
Our composting efforts align with a composting regulation requiring organizations that are large food-waste producers to publicly report on food waste generation and disposal by 2022.
In addition to composting, we also recycle non- hazardous waste.
We recycle glass, aluminum and plastic containers, as well as wood pallets, cardboard, scrap metal, stainless steel, electronic waste, K-Cups and Styrofoam coolers.
We are also exploring new ways to make progress on our 2025 goal to further increase plastic recycling.
For example, in will enable us to divert certain plastic wastes from our hazardous waste stream to the dry mixed recycling waste stream.
We are also evaluating vendors that can take the plastic waste that comes from IOPS labs and manufacturing and divert it from waste-to-energy to recycling operations.
Regeneron tracks waste generation, reduction, recycling and disposal across our sites and uses the data to measure and drive progress against our environmental sustainability goals.
We were proud to surpass our five-year waste diversion goal with from landfill by the end of 2018, and we have now challenged ourselves with new goals.
For example, our Rensselaer, New York facility reduced its hazardous waste in in their manufacturing areas and using it in the wastewater pre-treatment system.
In sent to landfill, representing 0.0004% of total waste.
We’re focused on implementing a global water mapping strategy to understand opportunities for improvement and a water stewardship program designed to capitalize on them.
We are working to sub-meter incoming sources of process water to map water usage and pursue water reduction initiatives in key areas.
We continue with our efforts to reduce water use, installing low-flush toilets and low-flow fixtures in restrooms, kitchens and pantries to reduce indoor consumption.
We plant native landscaping wherever possible and employ rainwater-harvesting systems at our primary sites to reduce water consumed for irrigation.
Green roofs at some of our buildings help reduce water run-off as well as absorb solar radiation to help reduce the cooling load.
At our manufacturing facilities, we monitor and treat our industrial wastewater and storm water onsite to ensure it meets quality standards before discharging to municipal sewer districts.
WATER MANAGEMENT According to the World Resource Institute’s Aqueduct tool, Regeneron’s sites are located in areas with medium-to-high water stress, where levels of competition over water resources are greater.
However, water depletion, regulatory and reputational risks are low for all of our sites.
Our Limerick site is a member of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, an action plan supported by more than across the country to help preserve pollinator species in Ireland at a time when nearly a third of bee species are threatened with extinction.
Regeneron employees plant pollinator-friendly flowers and shrubs and have installed five bee hotels across the campus.
In honeybee hives populated with the native Irish honeybee (Apis mellifera mellifera), which until recently was thought to be extinct.
Limerick employees continue to raise awareness in the workplace and the larger community about the need to preserve bee and other pollinator species that are threatened with extinction.
Our Rensselaer campus also has a designated bee pollinator area.
At our Rensselaer campus, we have restored a “forever wild” nature preserve and developed community gardens.
Similarly, our Tarrytown headquarters boasts forested acres that are zoned as non-developmental.
In Limerick, we made progress in Castle Woodlands area for employee recreational use, developing a conservation plan that includes woodland walkways, native flora plantings and protected habitats.
We believe green spaces are good for our health and wellness and for a healthy environment.
Our building and site plans maintain wetlands to conserve natural ecosystems and maintain habitats for local species.
They include greenhouses, nature trails, native landscaping and green roofs wherever possible.
We believe that investing in scientific talent, including enhancing access and equity for underserved students, is an investment in our collective future.
These young scientists are the innovators who will solve some of the greatest challenges facing society, such as climate change, human health and world hunger.
In December STEM initiatives: The Regeneron DNA Learning Center, a program of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), and our new title sponsorship of the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world’s largest pre-college science and engineering competition.
We describe these and our ongoing programs below.
Expose We are focused on increasing young peoples’ awareness, access and exposure to programs that spark interest in science.
For example, the Regeneron DNA Learning Center, a program of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, boasts a Sleepy Hollow campus.
Equipped with two state-of-the-art laboratory classrooms, each year we will provide middle school and high school students with hands-on science experiences during the academic year, summer camps and extended research projects.
Since hands-on experiences to more than 300,000 students of all ages.
Regeneron’s support has enabled more than hours through nearly 100 visits to underserved schools in the Hudson Valley and Capital Region of New York.
Equip We are focused on building students’ scientific capabilities and increasing the effectiveness of science teaching.
For example, we know that teachers make all the difference in their students’ success, so our programs are designed to enhance teacher preparedness and effectiveness as they nurture scientific leaders of tomorrow.
Read how we do this in our Mentoring The Mentors Case Study.
We are focused on celebrating and elevating young scientific innovators, so we can better inspire them to pursue meaningful STEM careers.
Amplifying our efforts, in December we were proud to expand our partnership with the Society to become the new title sponsor of the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world’s largest pre-college science and engineering competition, with a commitment of approximately $24 million over five years.
ISEF has given the world’s best and brightest young scientists a global stage to share their outstanding STEM research for more than half a century.
Winners from more than high school science fairs around the world earn the right to compete at Regeneron ISEF, where some 2,000 finalists, half of whom are young female scientists, compete for nearly $5 million in awards, prizes and scholarships.
We support science research education initiatives for students in underserved communities, such as our four-year, $Partner in Education (YPIE) to develop the Regeneron Science Research program (formerly STEM Research Institute).
Through it, we are leveraging YPIE’s established Scholars Program to offer a STEM track with access and opportunities to pursue independent science research, earn college credits and share their research.
In YPIE students presented and three placed in their category at the Westchester Science & Engineering Fair.
In we renewed our $100,000-annual commitment to YPIE for another four years.
Over the past high school students through our High School Science Research Mentorship Program, a two-year, scientist-led, immersive laboratory research experience that welcomes 15 new students each year.
Following a competitive application and interview process, selected students are paired with Regeneron scientists to design, develop and present their science projects.
In mentor students participated in a local or national science competitions.
Scientists are the world’s heroes, and behind every great scientist is a dedicated and motivated teacher.
We support teachers so they can provide more hands-on science research projects to their students.
Here’s a snapshot of three programs created with that in mind.
Advancing Science Research Teaching Our $and outreach program helps high school teachers to start or strengthen their STEM research programs.
An initiative of the Westchester Science and Engineering Fair, in our inaugural year, teachers at three schools, in Florida, Idaho and New Jersey, received intensive, customized skills training during weeklong workshops.
For example, William Furiosi, a teacher at Oviedo High in Florida, increased student participation in the school’s research program by early as freshman year and created research partnerships with faculty at the University of Central Florida.
William subsequently was named Seminole County Public Schools’ Teacher of the Year, out of more than peers.
In our support from three to five schools.
Regeneron High School Research Teachers Conference Every year, our partner, the Society for Science & the Public, welcomes science research teachers to its professional development conference.
In September, best practices and troubleshoot challenges they face in supporting students in independent science research.
The all-expenses-paid weekend features sessions on completing high school laboratory projects, placing students in summer programs, reaching underserved students and more.
A Regeneron Senior Staff Scientist has presented at the conference for the past three years, sharing how research programs help students develop critical life skills and foster a love for science.
STEM Teaching Fellowships Regeneron partners with the STEM Leadership Center and its collaborators, U.S Satellite Laboratory and Teachers College, Columbia University, to offer competitive, science educators.
Now in its sixth year, the Fellowship is a grass-roots education initiative that addresses the need to train secondary science teachers in STEM teaching methods, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and professional research practices.
In fellows received teaching preparation and professional development, graduate coursework and a two-week laboratory mentorship at Regeneron.
Research is underway to determine if this is a scalable professional development model for STEM educators.
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Ana Humphrey, an Alexandria, Virginia, took home the top award in the 2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a program of the Society for Science & the Public, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors.
Now in our third year, Regeneron has committed $over ten years to sponsor the Science Talent Search, following previous title sponsors Westinghouse and Intel.
planets outside our solar system — that may have been missed by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
Her research could aid our understanding of the formation of planets and inform our search for life in outer space.
Ana is the first Hispanic first-place winner in 20 years.
Other top-ten projects tackled important global issues, such as management of infectious diseases, more efficient air travel and refugee migration patterns.