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Environmentalists Say EPA Program Encourages Polluters

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

6 February 2006 - 7:00am

A coalition of environmentalists criticize the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's voluntary Performance Track program.

"A U.S. EPA program that's supposed to give recognition and flexibility to companies that are good environmental citizens may in fact be giving a free pass to some firms that are heavy polluters and even lawbreakers, according to a coalition of environmentalists....a number of enviros [say] the program already effectively grants companies amnesty from the enforcement of federal air- and water-pollution laws."

Full Story: Performance Anxiety
Source: Grist Magazine, February 3, 2006
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