The Common Sense Initiative was the centerpiece of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's much-touted regulatory reinvention in 1994. Called a "bold experiment," the EPA developed the Common Sense Initiative to address claims that its regulatory process had become burdensome, inefficient and costly.The program set out to find "cleaner, cheaper and smarter" ways of reducing pollution and recommending changes to environmental management in six key industrial sectors, including metal finishing. The program was meant to build consensus between industry, environmental groups and the EPA in the implementation of environmental regulation. At the time, EPA Administrator Carol Browner heralded the initiative as "probably the biggest new direction in environmental protection since the founding of the EPA."
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