Sears in Glen Burnie, Maryland Selected as Contestant in EPA National Building Competition

April 28, 2010

Will Compete to 'Work Off the Waste' with Help from ENERGY STAR Program HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD) today announced that a Sears store in Glen Burnie, Maryland, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) first national competition among commercial buildings to save energy and fight climate change. In the spirit of popular weight-loss competitions, the Glenn Burnie Sears store will compete against 13 other buildings across the country to "work off the waste" through improvements in energy efficiency with help from the EPA's ENERGY STAR program. The building that sheds the most energy waste on a percentage basis will be recognized as the winner of the EPA's National Building Competition in late October 2010.

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