Industry spent a ton of money getting into compliance. Many times without much time to do it. Audits, environmental staff. It's the manage and maintain stage. Indicators, develop environmental plans, do routine environmental compliance auditing, they have a dedicated staff, they usually have a budget.
Next stage is to get business value out of the environmental investment.
Performance measurement with continuos improvement. I think you have to connect business value and positive business performance with environmental performance. When these tools are used, what industry is finding is that they are bringing their costs down. Way to bring this down is to apply these tools and that's what industry is starting to do. I have come to the conclusion that corporate environmentalism can be a competitive weapon.