On Oct. 20 and 21, Lyondell will sponsor the first-ever "Lyondell Bike Around the Bay," a two-day 170-mile bike ride to benefit the Galveston Bay Foundation, a non-profit organization that aims to preserve the natural resources of the bay and its estuaries in southeast Houston, Texas.
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On Saturday, January 27, 2007, more than 80 Lyondell employee volunteers joined with other local citizens to plant 35,000 five-gallon trees in an effort to make Houston an "Emerald City" of trees.
Houston Mayor Bill White recently honored the employees of Lyondell with the presentation of the "2006 Mayor’s Outstanding Proud Partner Award." Lyondell President & CEO Dan Smith accepted the award from Mayor White on behalf of all Lyondell employees.
A Global Care Day project at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center by employees at Lyondell’s corporate offices earned the company an honorable mention award at the 2005 Keep Houston Beautiful, Mayor's Proud Partners Awards luncheon.
As part of Lyondell's annual Global Care Day community service program, employees from the Houston headquarters office built an observation deck along the banks of Buffalo Bayou, west of downtown Houston, for viewing a colony of 250,000 Mexican free-tailed bats that roost in the expansion joints on the underside of a bridge.
Lyondell is sponsoring the building of an observation deck near its Maasvlakte plant in the Netherlands to be completed this summer. The deck will be built by Het Zuid-Hollands Landschap, a certified charity that promotes conservation and environmental education in (Oost) Voorne.
More than 200 Lyondell employees braved the rain and cool weather to remove hundreds of pounds of trash as part of the Texas Adopt-a-Beach Fall Clean-up in Galveston, Texas.
A couple of years ago, the St. Helena Community Park in Baltimore, Maryland, was being overrun by weeds and trash. People were even abandoning boats and large items in the small park that serves the community along the Patapsco River in the southern section of Baltimore City, Maryland.
More than a dozen volunteers from the Corpus Christi plant participated in the 11th annual Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off in April. Volunteers picked up litter along the plant’s adopted highway, a two-mile stretch on McKinzie Road, adjacent to the plant entrance.
A $15,000 grant from Lyondell to the Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (CEC) in Houston will expand the distribution of the CEC’s annual Environmental Resource Guide to secondary school science teachers in Harris County, Texas.
The work of Channelview, Texas, employees will allow students a closer look at nature’s beauty. Employees constructed two observatory platforms, an aquatic study station and other facilities at Sheldon Lake as part of the park’s Environmental Learning Center.