A business aproach to managing our public lands

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A business aproach to managing our public lands

DATE Friday, February 09, 2001
Lawmakers back business approach

WASHINGTON (AP) - A business approach to managing the environment
that uses terms "performance-based" and "market-driven"
won the backing Thursday of two senior Republicans and a Democrat
who help steer natural resources policy. In an 18-page
document described as a nonpartisan blueprint for lawmakers, the
Business Roundtable laid out a program for "constructive
changes in our environmental protection system." The group, which
comprises chief executives of large companies, said free
trade and environmental flexibility should be emphasized. The
document also recommended that lawmakers help shift
regulatory controls away from the EPA and toward the states along
with voluntary self-auditing, approaches that have been
endorsed by new EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, New Jersey's
former governor. Other goals include a "better alignment
of energy and environmental policies" and an overall climate of
fewer regulations on businesses in order to reduce barriers
on developing new technology. Industry leaders were represented
by Earnest W. Deavenport Jr., chairman and CEO of Eastman
Chemical Co.; Fred Webber, president of the American Chemistry
Council; and American Forest and Paper Association President
Henson Moore.


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