EPA Region II Act Locally: Implementing Sustainability in Local Governments

Professor Cohen, Director of the MPA-ESP program as well as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Earth Institute, advised the team that worked with the Environmental Protection Agency to develop environmental sustainability plans for municipalities in Region II. The team conducted initial research on municipalities that have developed sustainability plans and a needed assessment of towns without plans, and synthesized research to develop a practical handbook for sustainability that was presented to the EPA and will be distributed nationally to municipalities.