An Assessment Of The Us Environmental Protection Agencys National Environmental Performance Track Program
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Author | : Scott Hassell |
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Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Law |
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This report addresses the conceptual basis, design, and implementation of the National Environmental Performance Track program. The voluntary program sought to encourage facilities to improve their environmental performance and provide a more collaborative relationship between facilities and regulators. While the program had mixed success, EPA should continue to seek out new approaches to complement and enhance traditional regulatory approaches.
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2004 |
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Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation |
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Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309116848 |
A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies. Assessing efficiency should be considered only one part of gauging a program's quality, relevance, and effectiveness. The efficiency of research processes and that of investments should be evaluated using different approaches. Investment efficiency should examine whether an agency's R&D portfolio, including the budget, is relevant, of high quality, matches the agency's strategic plan. These evaluations require panels of experts. In contrast, process efficiency should focus on "inputs" (the people, funds, and facilities dedicated to research) and "outputs" (the services, grants, publications, monitoring, and new techniques produced by research), as well as their timelines and should be evaluated using quantitative measures. The committee recommends that the efficiency of EPA's research programs be evaluated according to the same standards used at other agencies. To ensure this, OMB should train and oversee its budget examiners so that the PART questionnaire is implemented consistently and equitably across agencies.
Author | : National Performance Review (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
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Author | : Cary Coglianese |
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Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2014 |
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For nearly a decade, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) considered its National Environmental Performance Track to be its “flagship” voluntary program -- even a model for transforming the conventional system of environmental regulation. Since Performance Track's founding during the Clinton Administration, EPA officials repeatedly claimed that the program's rewards attracted hundreds of the nation's “top” environmental performers and induced these businesses to make significant environmental gains beyond legal requirements. Although EPA eventually disbanded Performance Track early in the Obama Administration, the program has been subsequently emulated by a variety of state and federal regulatory authorities. To discern lessons useful for similar voluntary programs, we report here the findings from a multipronged, multi-year research effort assessing business participation in Performance Track. We find no evidence to support the sweeping assertions EPA made about the program's achievements. Facilities participating in Performance Track simply could not be shown to be top performers. Rather, what most distinguished these participants was a factor distinct from environmental quality, namely their propensity to engage in outreach with government and community groups. Furthermore, drawing on an extensive analysis of business participation in Performance Track and other EPA voluntary programs, we show how Performance Track faced inherent limitations in its ability to induce any dramatic environmental gains, making its model more of a poor substitute for the conventional regulatory system than a plausible means for the system's transformation.
Author | : U. S. Environmental Protection Agency |
Publisher | : BiblioGov |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781289196240 |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment |
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Total Pages | : 1444 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Environmental laboratories |
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