78th CEG recognized with AF environmental quality award Published Jan. 21, 2011 By Wayne Crenshaw 78 ABW/PA ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- An array of programs aimed at making Robins a good steward of the environment has earned the 78th Civil Engineer Group the Gen. Thomas D. White Environmental Quality Award. The 78th CEG won the honor in the industrial category of the 2010 Air Force Civil Engineer and Environmental Awards competition. The award was in recognition of the group's efforts from October 2008 to September 2010. Achievements during that period included exceeding the service's goal to increase alternative fuel usage by 10 percent annually, as well as cutting the base's solid waste disposal by half, and its water consumption by 23 percent. According to the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, the award is named in honor of the Air Force chief of staff from 1957 to 1961 who "chartered the course for the Air Force environmental program." It is one of many such awards given annually to recognize leaders in environmental quality, restoration, pollution prevention, cultural resources management, and natural resources conservation.