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RHINELANDER - Today, Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton was in the Northwoods to announce a partnership between the Rhinelander School District, the state of Wisconsin and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Today the Rhinelander School District became the 38th district in the state to accept Lieutenant Governor Barabara Lawton's Energy Star School Challenge.
The challenge is a part of Lawton's Green Economy Agenda which she issued last month.
The goal of the program is to get 25-percent of school districts in the state to reduce their energy costs by nearly 10-percent.
Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton says, "Schools currently spend six billion dollars a year in the United States on energy. That's more than they spend on text books and computers combined."
To help accomplish the goal of reducing energy costs by ten-percent the Rhinelander School District will gain access to training's and other materials issued by the E-P-A.
Lawton says there is no deadline for reaching the goal and according to the Rhinelander School District's Superintendent Roger Erdahl plans are already underway.
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