By giving them more prominence in our programs and policies, we have an opportunity to help develop their full potential for increasing environmental results. More Widely We believe meaningful incentives can be a powerful force for achieving environmental results. Providing incentives to main streamers encourages them to become leaders. Providing incentives to top performers encourages them to continue improving and create cutting- edge, efficient practices that can be adopted by others. Over time, the cumulative effect should be a safer, cleaner environment.
Incentives are already at work.
EPA has them in several voluntary partnership programs and in regulatory programs. We ve also used incentives in our compliance assurance program. EPA has waived or reduced penalties for companies that voluntarily audit, disclose, and correct environmental violations and that take action to prevent future ones. These experiments will give us useful information about what works and help us use incentives more widely to achieve environmental goals. WasteWise Public Recognition.