EPA FACING BACKLASH OVER NEW PLAN TO BOOST VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS

EPA's burgeoning efforts to boost voluntary programs to reach environmental policy goals -- which the agency will soon highlight in a major report -- could be complicated by new opposition environmentalists are voicing to the agency's Performance Track program that EPA has long touted as a model voluntary initiative between industry and the government. The concerns, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Integrity Project, could signal that activists may become more active in seeking to...