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ISO 14001 and EPA Region Is StarTrack Program: Assessing their Potential as Tools in Environmental Protection Jennifer Nash John Ehrenfeld Jeffrey MacDonagh-Dumler Pascal Thorens Technology, Business, and Environment Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prepared for the National Academy of Public Administration June 2000  Learning from Innovations in Environmental Management: The Research Papers This report is one in a series of independent evaluations of innovations in environmental management commissioned by the National Academy of Public Administrations Center for the Economy and the Environment. The entire series is available at the Academys website, , and will be available in print in late 2000. The U.S. Congress initiated this study in FY 1998 when it asked the Academy to undertake an independent evaluation of some of the most promising innovations in environmental management. A panel of Academy Fellows and other experts is guiding the project. The panel selected the research topics and researchers, and encouraged the researchers to offer their own findings and recommendations. The reports in this series are the work products of the research teams; neither the Academy nor the project panel endorses their findings and recommendations. The panel will use the research reports as a foundation for its own report and recommendations to Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency later this year. The overall project is under the direction of DeWitt John and Richard A. Minard, Jr. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has funded the project through contract number 68-W-98-211. About the Academy The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to improve governance at all levels: local, regional, state, national, and international. The Academy’s membership consists of 480 Fellows with distinguished careers in public management as practi