EPA Report Urges More Collaboration For All Environmental Programs

In an upcoming major report, top EPA career officials are calling for greater collaboration with industry and other private sector groups to establish voluntary pollution-reduction efforts, and possibly more negotiated regulations, throughout all agency programs. EPA officials expect the report to be rolled out in late February after Administrator Stephen Johnson has a chance to review it. The report marks the most far-reaching statement to date of a possible "stewardship strategy" by EPA. It also in part represents EPA's follow-up...