Over the past several years, Tyler Milam has assembled authentic vintage uniforms and some dedicated friends to recreate the legendary 1995 Mariners squad.

SEATTLE — In April, KING 5 introduced you to Seattle Mariners superfan Tyler Milam.

Over the past several years he’s assembled authentic vintage uniforms and some dedicated friends to recreate the legendary 1995 Mariners squad.

“A few extras, too, like sweet Lou!” said Milam.

His team has grown to 13 and the Mariners have noticed the impressive passion.

Tyler Thompson is the manager of Game day Entertainment for the Mariners and said he’s never seen such dedication.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen this sort of sports Cosplay,” laughed Thompson.

The marketing team invited the 1995 fan squad to be guests of honor at the May 27 game against the Houston Astros.

“It’s 90’s night and they are a perfect fit so we have some fun planned with them and it will be very 1995!” Thompson said before the game.

The “Big Unit” Randy Johnson is portrayed by Milam and his years of fandom is paying off. He threw out the ceremonial first pitch. His teammates took the field and recreated an iconic moment from the 1995 season.

Milam said he first had the idea when he dressed up as Johnson for Halloween a decade ago.

The group went viral on social media, getting a shoutout on the Mariners’ Instagram account during the first home game of the 2022 MLB season, as well as mentions on national and local broadcasts.

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SEATTLE – Police arrested a suspected drug dealer in downtown Seattle Thursday and recovered a handgun, narcotics and more than $2,000 in cash.

According to Seattle Police, at around 5:00 pm, officers patrolling the area witnessed a man making drug deals near the corner of Pine St. and 2nd Ave. Officers followed him for several blocks when they tried to make an arrest. The suspect tried to run, but officer caught up to him. While they were putting handcuffs on the suspect, he tried tossing away a handgun. Authorities say they recovered the handgun, which was loaded, in addition to hundreds of fentanyl pills and more than $2,200 in cash.

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After identifying the 39-year-old suspect, police learned he had multiple warrants worth $900,000 for crimes including assault, burglary, domestic violence, unlawful possession of a weapon, unlawful possession of narcotics and escaping community custody.

Authorities say the suspect will be booked into King County Jail as soon as he is medically evaluated at Harborview Medical Center.

Massive fentanyl bust in Auburn

Auburn Police served search warrants on Apr. 20 and seized tens of thousands of fentanyl pills and hundreds of thousands in cash.

When/where: Friday at 8:40 pm, Saturday at 9:10 pm, Sunday at 3:10 pm; T Mobile Park.

television/radio: ATTSW; 790 AM and 1010 (Spanish) all three games, 740 AM on Friday and Saturday.

Pitchers: Friday, RHP Justin Verlander (6-1, 1.22) vs. RHP Chris Flexen (1-6, 4.98); Saturday, RHP Jose Urquidy (4-1, 4.24) vs. RHP Logan Gilbert (4-2, 2.60); Sunday, RHP Luis Garcia (3-3, 3.38) vs. LHP Marco Gonzales (3-4, 3.74).

Astros (29-16) update: After completing a stretch of 33 games in 34 days — during which it went 23-10 — Houston enjoyed the first of four consecutive Thursdays off. … The Astros are 4-2 against the Mariners this season but won just one of three April games at Seattle. … Verlander is 2-0 versus the M’s this year, having allowed eight hits and no walks in 14 2/3 innings against them. … With 232 career victories, Verlander is one shy of tying old-old-old-timer Charlie Buffinton (1882-92) for 65th place on the all-time list. … In 21 games this month, Jose Altuve is slashing .341/.393/.707 with eight homers and 20 runs. … Kyle Tucker ranks sixth in the American League with 29 RBIs.

Mariners (18-27) update: Seattle, which entered the season with hopes of ending a playoff drought dating to 2001, resides in last place in the AL West, having lost 21 of its last 28 games. … The Mariners are 10-8 at home and 8-19 on the road. … Highly touted rookie Julio Rodriguez leads the majors with 13 stolen bases. After slashing a mere .205/.284/.260 with no home runs in April, the center fielder is hitting .315/.351/.522 with five homers in May. … Earlier this week, Rodriguez joined Ken Griffey Jr. ( six times) and Alex Rodriguez (three times) as the only Mariners to homer in back-to-back games at age 21 or younger. … First baseman Ty France ranks fifth in the AL in both batting average (.331) and RBIs (31). He has an eight-game hitting streak during which he is 13-for-32 (.406)… 2020 AL Rookie of the Year Kyle Lewis played his first game of 2022 on Tuesday. He hadn’t played in the majors since last May because of a meniscus tear in his right knee. He will be a DH for the foreseeable future.

A fry bread taco, sweet potato salad, wild rice bowl, and chili from Off the Rez cafe. | Jade Yamazaki Stewart/Eater Seattle

With more than 40,000 students and 20,000 faculty and staff, University of Washington is one of the biggest urban universities in the country. The University District, known as the U District, functions like a big college town tucked inside a city, and The Ave (aka University Way) is its main street, where Huskies gravitate when they’re craving an off-campus meal. Most of the restaurants in the area are affordable, casual spots, and the options are eclectic with lots of good Asian food; There are regional Chinese restaurants, gyro windows, pho shops, dive bars, a brewery, and over 20 boba tea shops. Here are some favourites.

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uchange the golden sheen of a late summer day in 2021, boats rock in a crowded Lake Washington bay. Ten, 12, 20—who can count when they’re packed together this tight?—are tied up across a narrow inlet between Seward Park and the mainland. Someone’s cranking Drake, and though the water’s calm, dozens of swaying bodies wobble small speedboats in the cove.

Some partiers laze on highlighter-green floating mats that dip and rise like tipsy lily pads. Others cradle red solo cups as they head-bob aboard vessels. A guy in a Sonics throwback and bucket hat grips a bottle of Veuve Clicquot. At least one person starts twerking. A camera pans this flotilla of fucked-up, following a pointed finger to one boat’s stern and one dazed young woman. “That’s my girlllll!” a voice slurs.

Welcome to Andrews Bay, where videos of debauchery—of White Claw swilling and body part jiggling—surface every summer weekend. Where hundreds of Seattleites shed their layers and reticence in favor of micro bikinis and shameless raging. “It’s just like, when you’re there, you’re on a whole nother planet,” says Ernest Populus, a veteran of the scene.

By day, the Renton resident is a CAT scan technologist at Seattle Radiology. But on Andrews Bay, he’s DJ EPop, spinning as many as 10 weekends a summer on yachts as large as 80 feet. These vessels control rafting parties; scores of boats enter Andrews Bay in a single afternoon, but only a select few (read: ones with more girls) can attach to the anchored mother ships in the middle that host the biggest bashes. “It’s kind of like the cool kids club,” says regular Donte Bell. “They don’t just let anybody tie up.”

Whether it’s on Andrews Bay or elsewhere, boat access is the gateway to a summer yacht girl in Seattle. Our city may not rival the pool party scenes in Vegas or Miami, but it boasts an abundance of natural water steady enough for University of Washington sailgates, Seafair, and other varieties of picture-perfect aquatic throwdowns. “Our rooftop, our day party, our midday fun…it’s really just boating,” says Bell.

Yachts descend on this small pocket of water next to Seward Park because it’s the most lax overnight anchorage spot on Lake Washington. When Kirkland cracked down on parties in Juanita Bay about a decade ago, its bacchanalia flowed west to Andrews Bay, where boaters can find shelter from wind and open water—and, for the most part, ticketing for noise.

“The police are pretty lenient,” says Populus. The deejay totes a QSC speaker to give his sets—deep house, ’90s hip-hop, maybe some old-school rock remixed to 120 beats per minute—a “little extra kick” on the lake. From his perch behind a laptop on board, he gazes out at a sea of ​​gyrating bodies and flamingo floaties. He sees Seattle letting loose. “The vibe is just incredible.”

The view from shore is a bit different.

Joe Nascimento has tried everything. Shutting windows, inserting earplugs, writing public officials. Nothing can stifle the racket coming from the cove just down the street from his house. “It’s like international waters,” he says. “There are no rules that apply to it somehow.”

In 2013, after complaints from many Andrews Bay neighbors, Seattle City Council adopted an ordinance that barred amplified sound on boats loud enough to be heard from at least 300 feet away. The influx of Juanita Bay boaters brought more clamor to an area beloved for its tranquility, for spotting ospreys and eagles fishing beside one of the longest stretches of undeveloped shoreline on Lake Washington. After the legislation passed, the council’s self-congratulatory news release pledged that residents would “sleep better.”

But enforcement of the policy never actually materialized. Seattle Police Department spokesperson Randy Huserik doubts Harbor Patrol wrote any tickets for noise in the bay during 2020 or 2021, when the division shifted its focus to emergency response amid Covid and protests. Meanwhile, boat traffic swelled. Concerns about the hubbub, fireworks, and, er, sanitation exploded everywhere, from police incident reports to Nextdoor. Friends of Seward Park president Paul Talbert and longtime locals wonder why other areas of the lake—more affluent ones, some residents will point out—never experience the same problems. One nearby homeowner who’s lived in the neighborhood for decades says it’s a classic case of “underheard” Southeast Seattle.

Huserik notes that SPD typically doesn’t have a boat patrolling Lake Washington. It’s tough to sneak up on a party on the water. “Usually the moment our boats’ profiles are seen outside of Andrews Bay, everyone turns their music down.”

Nascimento and others in the vicinity of Seward Park formed a group, Save Andrews Bay, that initially proposed banning boats entirely from the cove. But some allies, it turns out, moor their watercraft in the bay and would like to keep doing so. So the group has also advocated for enforcement of the existing noise law and promoted a plan to fund a ranger for select summer weekends through donations. “We want quiet,” Nascimento says.

Which might sound like NIMBY speak. Even if this stretch of Lake Washington isn’t as wealthy as, say, Laurelhurst, nobody’s exactly racing to pity waterfront-adjacent homeowners forced to endure a little noise during a property value boom. “I feel like that’s kind of similar to the people who move to a downtown condo, and they complain about nightlife,” says Donte Bell.

But it’s not just a little noise, Nascimento stresses. “This is a dance club in the bay, and it affects thousands of homes.” While he acknowledges his group’s view isn’t shared by everyone—some like the sound of fun, he says—he poses a hypothetical to those dismissing them as Karens. “If I parked outside your house every sunny weekend in the summer, and blasted my stereo from noon till nine o’clock at night, that would be a problem for you, right?”

Probably, if I could afford a house in Seattle. But that argument isn’t what placed Andrews Bay back on the city’s radar, anyway.

The whirl of a chopper overhead is the video’s only sound on August 9, 2020. For at At last a moment, Andrews Bay has otherwise gone quiet. “Somebody drowned,” a voice narrates. “They didn’t find ’em. Peace to the family. That’s not a good day. Fuck. I feel so bad.”

Someone else would go under in the vicinity of Seward Park that night, adding to a spike in drowning deaths during 2020. It’s no secret what contributed to the rise; the majority involved alcohol or drugs, per Public Health—Seattle and King County. That holds true on the Bay. “It’s always the story,” says Donte Bell.

Save Andrews Bay formed right after the drownings, tragedies that prompted a response from city council member Tammy Morales. She met virtually with about 100 community members in October of 2020 to hear their concerns and, potentially, to inform legislation.

Still, nothing has been proposed as of this writing. Last year, the city did partner with Recreational Boating Association of Washington and Northwest Marine Trade Association to launch a campaign for “Respectful Play, So We Can Stay in Andrews Bay,” which encouraged the boaters who already use the water peacefully to champion similar aquatic behavior.

The most devoted of them anchor during early spring, says longtime regular Monica Archer. She calls the bay her “second home.” When she lived in Kirkland, she’d be on the lake by 6:05pm on weekdays. On weekends, by 10am. She’d steer her 2006 Centurion Avalanche C4, or Miss Champagne, from a dock in Bellevue to the cove, where she’d tip back a bottle of bubbly to toast the evening. Over time, she developed relationships with the close-knit community of boaters there known unofficially as the Andrews Bay Yacht Club. she even started an Etsy shop, Miss Champagne Co., that sells boat merch with the moniker.

Though Archer’s recently followed her boyfriend to Florida, her family still lives in the area. You can bet that, like Populus and Bell, she’ll be back at the Bay this summer. She may even tote a new party favor this year—Andrews Bay koozies.

Who could turn that down?

KENT, Wash. –Nico Myatovic scored just past the midpoint of overtime and The Seattle Thunderbirds edged the Kamloops Blazers, 2-1, in Game Four of the WHL Western Conference Championship Series at the accesso ShoWare Center Wednesday. The series is now even at two wins apiece. Game Five of the best of seven matchup is Friday at 7:00 pm at the Sandman Center in Kamloops.

Missing two of their top six forwards, Henrik Rybinski and Lucas Svejkovsky, T-birds head coach Matt O’Dette called it a gutsy win. “That’s what it took. We needed every single guy to raise their game and that’s what they did. We have a lot of character and a lot of resiliency in our room and we showed it again tonight.”

For the fourth time in the series, Kamloops opened the scoring. The power play goal came in the final minute of the first period from Daylan Kuefler. Seattle found the equalizer early in period two, with a power play goal of their own. Jordan Gustafson scored his fourth of the postseason at 1:55, assisted by Lucas Ciona and Samuel Knazko.

O’Dette said goaltender Thomas Milic was strong in net, giving his team a chance for the win. “We defended a lot better in front of him tonight. That was a focus, getting back to our good habits and fundamentals. When there was a breakdown, Milly was there.”

The game stayed tied at 1-1 through the remainder of regulation, forcing overtime. At 11:16 of the extra period, Ciona skated the puck behind the Blazers goal then passed out in front to Myatovic, who popped home his third of the playoffs. Gustafson had the second assist on the game winner.

Myatovic, who had a potential game winning goal disallowed in the third period because of a hand pass, said he had to forget that and focus on the overtime period. “We just thought we had to keep pushing and hopefully we’d get a break. We stuck with our game plan all night and I was able to bury the winner.”

Like Myatovic, Ciona had a goal waved off by the referee because of contact with Blazer goalie Dylan Garand. While he didn’t agree with the call, he said he moved past it. “We had a mission to go out against their top line tonight. Gussy, Nico and I were all strong all game, our d-men were good. It was a very determined effort from us. You can get a little frustrated by that (disallowed goal) but you just have to go out there and score again.”

T-BIRD EXTRAS

The T-birds are now 5-3 at home in the playoffs and 5-3 on the road.

The win by Seattle guarantees there will be a Game Six Sunday at the accesso ShoWare Center. Game time is 5:05 pm Tickets are on sale at seattlethunderbirds.com

The T-birds are now 2-1 this postseason in overtime games. They lost in extra time in Game Four of the first round to the Kelowna Rockets on the road. They came back to be the Rockets at home in overtime in Game Five to close out that series.

The T-birds have no status update on either Rybinski or Svejkovsky ahead of Game Five.

Full box score: WHL Network

Changes are coming to the Seattle Kraken this summer. General manager Ron Francis says he plans on being aggressive in free agency, he has draft capital to make trades, and with a slew of draft picks he is looking to stock the pipeline. Safe to say the roster will look different, and that includes the naming of a new team captain.

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The captain of a hockey team carries some extra weight. At times we may over-romanticize the importance of the role, but they play a big part in team success. The captain is who the younger players look to for advice, is a conduit between the coach and players, and is the guy who will step up and motivate the team.

Captains are often players who will be there for the long haul – unless you can get a couple of second-round picks for them in a trade, as the Kraken did with last season’s captain, Mark Giordano.

There are several strong candidates to step into Giordano’s skates, and the new Seattle Kraken captain could come from the group of alternate captains that made up the leadership group in season one. That includes Adam Larsson, Yanni Gourde, and Jordan Eberle. While they wore the letters, head coach Dave Hakstol often talked about leadership being more of a collective.

At his season-ending press conference, Hakstol said they had yet to discuss naming a new captain, and don’t be surprised if that process carried into training camp as it did last season.

When Hakstol does come to a conclusion, he should choose Eberle to wear the ‘C’ on his jersey next season.

Why Jordan Eberle as Seattle Kraken captain?

A veteran of 858 NHL games, Eberle has seen it all. He was originally a first-round pick, 22nd overall, of the Edmonton Oilers in 2008, and he’s experienced the pressure that comes with breaking into the NHL as a high draft pick.

Eberle played in a market with high expectations and constant scrutiny with the Oilers. He’s been a consistent scorer, as his 21 goals with the Kraken was the seventh time he hit or passed the 20-goal mark in his career. A captain doesn’t have to necessarily be the team’s best player but must be a guy who is contributing on the ice, and Eberle sure is that.

He scored the first hat trick in team history and was its lone representative at the NHL All-Star game. Eberle has the credentials.

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What he says matters, and Eberle gives straight answers and never pulled punches during Seattle’s struggles this season. While we don’t get access to how that translates behind the closed door of the dressing room or even on the bench, you can imagine that when Eberle talks, his mates listen.

He knows the game and can assess what’s working, what’s not, and where the team needs to go next. Eberle sounds like a coach at times, but he has the experience and respect of his teammates for them to follow.

Take, for example, what Eberle said the day after the Kraken blew a 3-1 lead against the Winnipeg Jets and lost 4-3 in the season finale on May 1:

“I think if you look at the last 10 games, you look at some of the periods we played and you’re up two or three to nothing and then all sudden you take your foot off the gas, you sit back and that’s all teams need to get into games. It’s almost a learning thing. You learn how to win, you learn how to play in those situations, but the only way to learn that is to get into those situations. We were, so that’s the positive, and the negative obviously is sitting back and letting things come at us.”

That sounds like a leader talking.

Working with younger players

Prior to joining the Kraken in last summer’s NHL Expansion Draft, Eberle played on New York Islanders teams that had advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals two years in a row. He knows what it takes for a team to win and win consistently.

That’s key when it comes to a team that is young and may get younger in the coming season. Players like Morgan Geekie, Kole Lind, and Matty Beniers are still getting their NHL feet wet, and Eberle can help.

He’s been where they are as young players with high expectations, and he’s already bonded with Beniers. After signing his entry-level contract in April, Beniers played on a line with Eberle to end the season and was a big help.

“Just little things on the ice that people don’t really see,” Beniers said about the help he got, “but it goes a long way in making the game easier for me. Little things on the ice and then off the ice, the aspect of having games in a few days, so little recovery things and things like that.”

Other captain candidates

If it’s not Eberle with the ‘C’ on his sweater, he’ll still be a big player in the leadership group, as will others.

Jared McCann didn’t wear an ‘A’ this season as an alternate captain, but he has leadership qualities that seemed to grow as the season went on and will be in the mix.

Gourde is a fan and player favorite, and while he’s always smiling, he’s a fierce competitor. He thinks the game well, has a championship pedigree, and has earned respect from his teammates.

Larsson, while maybe not the most vocal player publicly, is a guy who has a ton to offer as a leader with the Kraken.

“He’s a rock, he shows up, he does his job, he works,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said of Larsson after the season. “I believe he grew even a little bit more than we came down the stretch here in terms of what he brought to the rest of the group in terms of energy and confidence. Those are some of the little things that you look for in the different guys in and around the room… He’s part of our leadership group.”

While Eberle may be the most qualified to be the captain, he’s not the only one that could do it, and do it well. Hakstol is in a good position here. He has strong leaders, and that was one of the keys to the way the Kraken played hard all season. Now they just need to turn that hard work into wins.

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Cleveland High School

Seattle’s Cleveland High principal informed families of a plan to scale back COVID-19 contact tracing in Seattle schools. This was something district officials ordered her not to do. Superintendent Brent Jones posted an update to Cleveland families saying Marni Campbell had withdrawn from the position of principal at Cleveland High School because she “did not want to be a distraction or hamper the future success of Cleveland students.”

Principal Catherine Brown worked at Cleveland High School for 18 years. It all ends this summer. There was an investigation. After that, district officials decided to end Brown’s principal contract. The official end date is effective June 30. In addition, she was demoted to a lower role. Then they sought to reassign her to a different school. On top of that, a five-day suspension is recommended.

An education attorney, who once served as counsel for the district said that, “This is the most severe discipline I’ve seen imposed on an 18-year” employee, a “principal, with no past record, for insubordination or failing to follow a directive.”

dr Brown became the principal of this school year after having served as the school’s assistant principal for several years. Students believe there is a lack of transparency between them and the school system.

Marni Campbell, the principal at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, is reported as the new replacement. Students and families are angry. However, an organization representing Seattle principals told Cleveland students in a filmed interview that Campbell declined the appointment and did not respond to the media for comments.

They may be a long shot at a remedy. Brown may seek reconsideration and respond to the district’s discipline in front of a hearing officer and in a separate process through the School Board. Students walked out of class at 11:30 am last Friday and gathered at school district headquarters to protest principal Catherine Brown’s departure.

KENT, Wash. –The Seattle Thunderbirds fell into an early three goal hole they could not climb out from and dropped a, 6-3, decision to the Kamloops Blazers in Game Three of the WHL Western Conference Championship Series Tuesday at the accesso ShoWare Center. Kamloops now leads the series two games to one. Game Four of the best of seven matchup is slated for Wednesday back in Kent. Game time is 7:05 pm

It took the Blazer all of 27-seconds to open the scoring, as Drew Englot won a puck battle behind the T-birds net and spotted Logan Stankoven all alone in front of the Seattle net. Stankoven, the leading goal scorer in the postseason, ripped home the first of his three on the night.

“The start wasn’t good,” said T-birds head coach Matt O’Dette. “Can’t give up a goal first shift. Obviously, a defensive zone breakdown. Leaving their best player open in the slot is not ideal.”

The T-birds got the game’s first power play but failed to score. Then The Blazers got their first power play opportunity and made it 2-0 on a Daylan Kuefler tip of a Quinn Schmiemann point shot. It went from bad to worse when Stankoven poked home a rebound just 18 seconds later.

“We have to come out more efficiently,” explained O’Dette. “We have to settle into our game plan, get into our groove but by the time we did that, it was already three-nothing.”

The Thunderbirds fought back. Kevin Korchinski scored at 18:38 of the first period, assisted by Tyrel Bauer and Lukas Svejkovsky. Then at 13:25 of period two, Seattle got within a goal, at 3-2, thanks to Jared Davidson putting back a rebound of a Nico Myatovic backhander. Bauer picked up his second assist.

But late in the second the T-birds failed to clear the defensive zone and Schmeimann’s shot from the left point hit a Seattle stick and caromed past T-birds goalie Thomas Milic into the back of the net, re-establishing Kamloops’s two goal lead.

“The margin for error, after you fall behind by three, is small,” said O’Dette. “They got a good bounce with their fourth goal off one of our sticks. It was a momentum changer. We had all the momentum, pressing for the tying goal but gave up that one.”

Seattle didn’t get a shot on goal in the third period until after the ten-minute mark. Kamloops then added to their lead at 13:16 with Kuefler’s second of the game. The T-birds climbed back within two when Matt Rempe banked home his fifth goal of the postseason on a T-birds power play at 16:13. The T-birds pulled their goalie late in hopes of closing the gap but Stankoven scored into the empty net at 18:45 to erase any hope of a late comeback.

“I thought in the third, we didn’t come out with enough urgency,” O’Dette lamented. “We didn’t get a shot until well into the period. We turned it up from there and made a good push but you need to play sixty minutes.”

T-BIRD EXTRAS

O’Dette returned to the Seattle bench after missing the first two games in Kamloops due to illness.

Seattle played a second straight game without their top center, Henrik Rybinski (undisclosed reason).

Reid Schaefer’s assist on Seattle’s third goal, gives him a seven-game scoring streak (4g, 7a). Earlier in the day Schaefer was named the WHL Player of the Week.

A T-birds win in either Game Four Wednesday or Game Five Friday in Kamloops, will guarantee a Game Six Sunday at the accesso ShoWare Center.

Full box score: WHL Network

Agency ranks Seattle 13th in the nation for number of Energy Star buildings

May 24, 2022

SEATTLE – The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing its annual “Top Cities” list, spotlighting the cities with the greatest number of ENERGY STAR certified commercial and multifamily buildings in 2021. Seattle ranked in 13th place, with 138 ENERGY STAR certified buildings .

“Right now, our cities and urban areas are experiencing the costly impacts of climate change, but there are steps we can take to reduce emissions and tackle this crisis,” said EPO Administrator Michael S. Regan. “Working with EPA, the owners and managers of ENERGY STAR certified buildings are taking concrete actions that will reduce emissions, save on their energy bills, and help protect their cities for the future.”

Commercial buildings are responsible for 18% of the nation’s energy use and spend more than $190 billion per year on energy bills. ENERGY STAR certified buildings use an average of 35% less energy and are responsible for 35% less carbon dioxide emissions than typical buildings.

First released in 2009, EPA’s list of cities with the most ENERGY STAR certified buildings shows how buildings across America are embracing energy efficiency as a simple and effective way to save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To create the annual list, EPA tallies the number of ENERGY STAR certified buildings within each metropolitan area, as defined by the US Census, and creates separate rankings for mid-sized and small cities. These areas include the city itself as well as surrounding suburbs.

To earn the ENERGY STAR, a commercial building must achieve an ENERGY STAR score of 75 or higher on EPA’s 1 – 100 scale, indicating that it is more energy efficient than 75% of similar buildings nationwide. A building’s ENERGY STAR score is calculated based on a number of factors, including energy use, hours of operation, and a variety of other operating characteristics.

More about ENERGY STAR and this year’s Top Cities