Environmental Protection: EPA's and States' Efforts to 'Reinvent' Environmental Regulation

T-RCED-98-33 Published: Nov 04, 1997. Publicly Released: Nov 04, 1997.

Highlights

GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) and the states' roles in promoting and implementing innovative methods of environmental regulation, focusing on: (1) a draft agreement between EPA and the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) on environmental regulation; and (2) the findings of a GAO report on EPA's and the states' efforts to reinvent environmental regulation.

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Natural Resources and Environment

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