ABSTRACT
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been experimenting with change in order to reinvent environmental regulation. The EPA has had much success with the ‘command-and-control’ approach to solving historic environmental problems, but the challenges that remain today are not so suited to that approach. Problems tend to be more complex and cross statutory, media, state, regional and international boundaries. We also wish to take advantage of technological advances, and make sure our regulations are not hindering their use or effectiveness. We wish to recognise the more sophisticated stakeholders that now exist (including the state-level agencies) and to leverage their information, experience, perspectives and resources. Finally, we wish to underscore and cultivate the change in philosophy from pollution control to pollution prevention, and to highlight new awareness in the area of environmental justice.
