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Council members toured the IceStone facility at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to discuss ways to manufacture products in an environmentally friendly way.

The company is leading the way in green manufacturing, producing countertops, vanities, and flooring using 100 percent recycled glass while also maintaining green building certification.

The company is also spurring more innovative jobs.

"It's great to see what's going on here at IceStone, the sustainable manufacturing, great to see what's going on at the Navy Yard, the revitalization of this community, the jobs are being created here," said White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley.

"It's really exciting to have somebody who really has the ear of the president in terms of environmental policy, to come here and witness what we have created, which is really around the people that are here and the community that we have created," said IceStone Co-Founder Peter Strugatz.

Officials with the Brooklyn Navy Yard say they're thrilled the White House is highlighting their facilities as a national model for green manufacturing.

"Over the last decade 40 or so green manufacturers have emerged amongst our 275 businesses creating hundreds of terrific new jobs, creative class, entrepreneurs locally who want to make something and want it to be green," said Andrew Kimball of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation.

Over the last decade, more than 2,000 green jobs have come to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with another 2,000 expected within the next two years.