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Boeing Cuts Manufacturing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Plane maker set goals to cut carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and hazardous waste by 2012, and to improve solid waste recycling rates.

SEATTLE (AP) -- The Boeing Co. says it plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in the next five years, even as it manufactures more aircraft.

In an environmental report Thursday, the Chicago-based plane maker set goals to cut carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and hazardous waste 1 percent by 2012, and to improve solid waste recycling rates from about 60 percent to 75 percent.

Boeing says the company will also push its suppliers to use less energy, produce less carbon dioxide and operate more efficiently.