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Regulatory Development

• Regulations: A Vital Tool for Protecting Public Health and the Environment describes how EPA writes regulations and how your voice can influence the policies that shape our environmental future.

• EPA laws, regulations, and regulatory proposals are available for public review and comment at Regulatory Management.

Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

• Environmental Management Systems: Systematically Improving your Performance EPA published several brochures highlighting the benefits of EMS implementation at various industrial facilities. The brochures were created in partnership with major trade associations from each industry.
• Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Action Plan In a July 1999 report EPA committed to encourage organizations to use EMSs that improve compliance, pollution prevention, and other measures of environmental performance. This action plan lays out the steps EPA will take to fulfill this pledge. EMS Web site

• Innovations in Environmental Management or the pdf version (4.7 mb)
  Helping companies cut costs and improve performance.

Sectors

• Sector Strategies Performance Report A new EPA report establishes a performance baseline for tracking future environmental progress in a number of key industrial and service sectors. The 2004 Sector Strategies Performance Report provides a snapshot of environmental trend data for each of 12 sectors, including construction, forest products, and iron and steel manufacturing, that participate in the Agency's multi-media Sectors Strategies Program.
• A Method for Quantifying Environmental Indicators of Selected Leisure Activities in the United States (pdf, 2.3mb) The study is an initial step by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to quantify the environmental impacts of leisure activities --tourist and recreational activities undertaken buy the American Public. EPA 231-R-00-001.

Economic Analysis

• Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses establish a sound scientific framework for performing economic analyses of environmental regulations and policies. The Guidelines provide guidance on analyzing the economic impacts of regulations and policies, and assessing the distribution of costs and benefits among various segments of the population, with a particular focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. EPA 240-R-00-003

• The United States Experience with Economic Incentives for Protecting the Environment economic incentives are being increasingly used to control pollution and improve environmental and health protection. This EPA report assesses the role of economic incentives for controlling environmental pollution, documenting hundreds of uses of economic incentives for controlling pollution at all levels of government to both supplement and substitute for traditional regulatory approaches. EPA 240-R-01-001

• more Economics publications

Innovation Programs and Accomplishments

• EPA Innovation Strategy and Key Actions This strategy reflects EPA's commitment to explore new and creative ways of achieving cleaner air, purer water, and better protected land, and it provides EPA with a practical framework for encouraging innovative solutions to environmental challenges. Key actions in this framework include strengthening environmental partnerships, targeting priorities, expanding the current collection of tools, and creating a more innovative culture to effectively address challenging problems.

• The Innovation Imperative (pdf 623K) - article about innovation at EPA, by Tom Gibson, Associate Administrator. From the March/April 2002 edition of Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute.

• Innovating for Better Environmental Results (pdf 196K) - article about innovation at EPA, by Tom Gibson, Associate Administrator. From the spring 2002 edition of ECOStates, the quarterly journal of the Environmental Council of the States.

• more Innovation publications

• Engaging the American People: A Review of EPA's Public Involvement Policy and Regulations with Recommendations for Action . This report is the product of a cross-program EPA Workgroup, and creates the framework for a Strategic Plan for Public Involvement.

• EPA's Draft 2000 Public Involvement Policy - Federal Register Notice and request for comments . The US Environmental Protection Agency issued a Draft Public Involvement Policy on December 28, 2000, and requested comments through April 27, 2001.

• Stakeholder Involvement & Public Participation at the U.S. EPA: Lessons Learned, Barriers, and Innovative Approaches (pdf 150k) (January 2001). This report identifies key cross-cutting lessons learned, pinpoints unique barriers and ways to overcome them, and highlights innovative approaches to stakeholder involvement and public participation.

• Project XL Stakeholder Involvement Evaluation (pdf 380k) (October 2000) This is the second extensive evaluation of stakeholder involvement in Project XL. Findings and conclusions are based off of in-depth case studies for eight XL projects. XL Web site

• Public Involvement in Environmental Permits: A Reference Guide Guide to help concerned parties engage in EPA's permitting process. Written primarily for state implementors but helpful to any interested party.

Partners for the Environment

• Boosting Your Bottom Line Exactly what can a company expect from becoming a Partner for the Environment? Along with improving environmental performance, an opportunity to gain cost savings, public recognition, and technical assistance. Partners Web site

Communities and Smart Growth

• Making the Brownfield-Transportation Link -- Smart Growth Options for States and Metropolitan Areas, June 2001, by Tom Gibson, Associate Administrator; and G. Alexander Taft, Executive Director, Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations. more Smart Growth publications

• Developing for the Future: Hometown USA (pdf, 12.3 mb), a report on innovative community projects sponsored by EPA grants.

• THIS PLACE CALLED HOME CD-ROM contains stories, interviews, and information that express a strong undercurrent of change about community-based environmental protection.

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