Re: Environmental Compliance Costs

["Donald Sutherland" <donaldsutherland-iso14000@worldnet.att.net>]

Aren't the EPA issued PACE survey reports doing both?

Survey: How Much Do U.S. Industries Spend Cutting Pollution?
http://ens-news.com/ens/feb2001/2001L-02-12-03.html

Best Wishes,
Donald Sutherland
Member of the Society of Environmental Journalists
donaldsutherland-iso14000@worldnet.att.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Buxbaum.Diane@epamail.epa.gov <Buxbaum.Diane@epamail.epa.gov>
To: Judith Wlodarczyk <jwlodarc@connstep.org>
Cc: envgroup-list@mep.nist.gov <envgroup-list@mep.nist.gov>; Mike
DeCrescente <MDeCresc@connstep.org>; owner-p2tech@great-lakes.net
<owner-p2tech@great-lakes.net>; p2tech@great-lakes.net
<p2tech@great-lakes.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Environmental Compliance Costs


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>My concern with reports that are about the cost of environmental
>compliance are usually just directed at the out of pocket corporate
>expenses and almost never take in true environmental costs.  Are there
>reports that do both?
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>Diane D. Buxbaum,  M.P.H.
>Environmental Scientist
>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  Region 2
>DECA/CAPSB
>290 Broadway, 21 East
>New York, NY 10007
>phone: 212-637-3919
>fax: 212-637-4086
>email: buxbaum.diane@epa.gov
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>                    Judith Wlodarczyk
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>                    owner-p2tech@great        Subject:     Environmental
Compliance Costs
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>                    Please respond to
>                    Judith Wlodarczyk
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>One of our sister organizations prepares an annual Manufacturing
>Benchmark
>Report.  In this report they have a section that estimates the costs of
>compliance with federal and state environmental regulations in each of
>the 50
>states.  The data that they have been using is a 1994 Census report.
>Obviously,
>the data is not current.  In fact, we hope that the costs have gone down
>because
>of aggressive P2 activities.
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>Does anyone know of anything more current that I could refer them to?
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>Thanks,
>Judy Wlodarczyk
>Environmental Management Specialist
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>CONNSTEP, Inc.
>1090 Elm St.
>Suite 202
>Rocky Hill, CT  06067
>www.connstep.org
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>Phone:  860-644-9718
>Fax:       860-529-5001
>Email:    jwlodarc@connstep.org
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