U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — Outreach pack

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Michael S. Regan
EPA Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Recent work

Led May 28 2024 joint administration release of 'Policy Statement and Principles for Responsible Participation in Voluntary Carbon Markets' with Treasury and DOE. EPA released its 'VCM Principles' simultaneously. Quote: 'These principles provide a critical framework for building a VCM that is robust, trustworthy...'

Signals the recipient responds to

Already on the record for VCM integrity
Joint-administration coordination track
Principles-based (not prescriptive) framing

Organisational context

Positions

EPA voluntary-market guidance sets expectations for state programmes (CA ARB, RGGI) and corporate-reporting norms.

Active initiatives

VCM Principles; Clean Air Act implementation; state-programme coordination.

Pressures

Continued ICVCM / SBTi / VCMI alignment; corporate-buyer demand for federal clarity.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: Regan's May 2024 VCM Principles are the federal framing proof-pack disclosure operationalises. A follow-on EPA technical guidance specifying per-tonne evidentiary properties as one acceptable substantiation path reinforces the existing Principles without new rulemaking.

Why now: 12 months post-Principles release is the natural guidance-update cadence.

The ask: EPA briefing on per-tonne evidentiary property prescription. Draft guidance language; state-programme alignment analysis.

Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Agency authority

Clean Air Act implementation; voluntary-market guidance; greenhouse-gas reporting programme.

The ask

Include per-tonne evidentiary property prescription in any EPA voluntary-market guidance. Convene a public process on per-tonne evidentiary standards.

The case

EPA's voluntary-market guidance sets expectations for state-level programmes (CA ARB, RGGI, others). Property-based prescription is the regulatory-design approach that preserves agency neutrality on technology while raising the evidentiary floor.