EPA EYES SECTOR 'COMPLIANCE RATES' TO MEASURE ENFORCEMENT SUCCESS

EPA is planning to use "statistical compliance rates" in various industrial sectors as a new measure of the success of its enforcement programs, a plan proponents say will allow the agency to move away from counting inspections, enforcement orders issued, penalties and fines and other traditional measures of enforcement success. Agency sources say their planned use of the controversial performance measure is intended to show better environmental outcomes under the White House's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), which the White...