PEACOCK EYES ECO-REGIONS AS NEW WAY TO TRACK ENVIRONMENT PROGRESS

An initiative EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock launched to divide the agency's regional offices into four so-called eco-regions will form a new way of highlighting and tracking success in achieving a set of top regional and state environmental priorities such as energy issues in the West and disaster and hurricane preparedness in the Southeast, according to EPA documents and state sources. The effort, which Peacock launched last November and is still in the development stages, aims to "focus a spotlight...