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Developing new environmental excellence programs: Lessons from epa's environmental leadership program
Author(s) -
Feldman Ira R.,
Schiavo Michael C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.3310050104
Subject(s) - excellence , notice , government (linguistics) , plan (archaeology) , environmental management system , business , public relations , public administration , management , political science , economics , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , biology , irrigation , law , history
Interest in the concept—and implementation—of environmental excellence is at an all‐time high. A wealth of examples from individual companies, trade associations, states, industry coalitions, and the federal government illustrate the growing acceptance by a wide range of stakeholders of a management systems approach to environmental issues. Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than in the collection of public comments submitted to EPA in response to its January 15, 1993, Federal Register notice, which proposed the creation of an Environmental Leadership Program (ELP). The authors, both of whom worked on the ELP, review these public comments and offer a set of “do's and don'ts” for organizations interested in establishing an environmental excellence program. In addition, the authors outline the Green Track proposal, a plan to structure an alternate regulatory pathway based on environmental excellence.