Performance incentives encourage businesses to implement better environmental practices. In partnering with businesses, the EPA promotes a systematic approach to managing environmental responsibilities, including taking extra steps to reduce and prevent pollution and being good corporate neighbors. Adopting these practices not only results in environmental excellence - it can also save money and improve productivity. The EPA rewards participating businesses by recognizing and publicizing their achievements, managing the exchange of information and ideas and streamlining the compliance process.

Recommended EPA Web pages

• National Environmental Performance Track
  Performance Track is a voluntary program to recognize and reward businesses and public facilities that demonstrate strong environmental performance beyond current requirements.
• Partnership Programs
  EPA partners with many organizations using voluntary goals and commitments to achieve measurable environmental results in a timely and cost-effective way.
• Design for the Environment: Partnerships for a Cleaner Future
  The Design for the Environment Program helps businesses incorporate environmental considerations into the design and redesign of products, processes, and technical and management systems.

Industrial Processes
Combustion, Construction, Drilling, Excavation, Incineration, Manufacturing, Mining, Refining

Industries
Agriculture and Cattle Industry, Automobile Repair Industry, Chemical Industry, Construction Industry, Dry Cleaning Industry, Electronics and Computer Industry, Energy Industry, Environmental Industry, Extractive Industry, Fishing Industry, Food Processing Industry, Forest Industry, Garment and Textile Care Industry, Leather Tanning and Finishing Industry, Metal Finishing Industry, Metal Processing Industry, Pesticides Industry, Petroleum Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Printing Industry, Pulp and Paper Industry, Transportation Industry

Permits
Air, Pesticides, Waste, Water

Small Businesses
Compliance Assistance, Technical Assistance

Storage Tanks
Above Ground Tanks, Leak Detection, Overfill Prevention and Protection, Remediation, Site Assessment, Spill Prevention and Protection, Underground Storage Tanks

Voluntary Partnerships