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Sappi Fine Paper North America was honored with the 2002 Maine Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Governor Angus King presented the award, recognizing the company's pollution prevention efforts at its Somerset mill in Skowhegan. Sappi also received an award for reducing hazardous waste from the Somerset mill by 97 percent. Sappi received the award specifically for its pollution prevention program that reduced phosphorous loading from the mill to the Kennebec River by more than 60 percent.