With Rules Pending, EPA Steps Up Promotion Of Voluntary Climate Efforts

摘要

As EPA's greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations face a series of crucial tests, the agency is also moving to ramp up and restructure its public support for "superior" voluntary efforts by corporations and others to reduce emissions and plan for climate change risks - despite its decision to scrap the Bush-era Climate Leaders partnership program. The agency's just released fiscal year 2013 budget says EPA will "continue to promote cost effective corporate GHG management practices and provide recognition for superior efforts, though a joint award program with nongovernmental organizations." And the agency says it will focus on "GHG supply chain management, which will primarily be implemented though the ongoing cooperative pilot [program] with the General Services Administration to assist small federal suppliers in developing their GHG inventories."