WASHINGTON – The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) announced the recipients of its Environmental Excellence Awards and the winner of the 2023 Environmental Leadership Award. The Excellence Awards recognize operations that actively demonstrate a commitment to the exemplary use of environmental controls and systems. NSSGA recognized a total of 10 Gold, 11 Silver and 84 Bronze winners during the first session of the Legislative & Policy Forum. 

“All NSSGA members are responsible environmental stewards of the land they operate on,” said NSSGA President & CEO Michael Johnson. “The environmental awards create an annual forum to showcase companies’ innovative practices within the environmental sector. Each year the bar gets set higher by the award winners and I thank each of them for their contributions in making the entire industry better.

Additionally, Kurt Blase was recognized as the 2023 Environmental Leadership Winner. He was lauded for his career of enforcing reasonable federal standards for the industry since 1994. Blase also worked with NSSGA to mitigate unreasonable standards in the Clean Air Act. His expertise with these regulations has been vital to aggregate producers’ everyday success. 

North East Quarry, Bluegrass Materials LLC, Martin Marietta was announced as the 2023 Environmental platinum winner, which is the top-scoring gold. A complete listing of the 2023 Award winners can be found at nssga.org/awards.

2023 Environmental Excellence Awards

Platinum Winner
North East Quarry
Bluegrass Materials, LLC
Martin Marietta
 

Gold Award Winners

CONTACT: Kerry Lynch
(703) 526-1072, klynch@nssga.org