Performance Anxiety: EPA Rewards Polluters with Reduced Oversight

A U.S. EPA program that's supposed to give recognition and flexibility to companies that are good environmental citizens may in fact be giving a free pass to some firms that are heavy polluters and even lawbreakers, according to a coalition of environmentalists. Amanda Griscom Little, who writes the Muckraker column for Grist, sorts through the EPA's carrot-and-stick policies to reveal how agency incentives are leading to less environmental oversight.