EPA ADVISORY PANEL TO STUDY WHETHER INCENTIVES COULD BOOST COMPLIANCE

An EPA advisory committee will begin a year-long series of meetings next month to study how EPA could make use of certain incentives to promote better environmental stewardship throughout the regulated community, agency sources say. Last month, the National Advisory Committee for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) finalized its workplan for the coming year. The group's focus over the next year will be principally trained on how EPA can use incentives to get states and industry to exceed their compliance...