EPA EYES NEW PERFORMANCE TRACK CHECKS FOLLOWING CRITICAL REPORT

EPA is revising how it verifies whether facilities meet commitments under its Performance Track (PT) voluntary program for companies that go beyond regulatory compliance requirements, after environmentalists alleged in a report that many PT facilities' commitments were measured from data that conflicted with other information reported to EPA, agency sources and environmentalists say. The agency says it will now compare data reported under its Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) with data companies provide when they enter the PT program, a development...