In 2007 The Guardian Trust partnered with Region 1 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop an innovative pilot program in which the Trust would assume the responsibility for instituting land use and engineering controls on contaminated sites and providing long-terrm oversight through monitoring and reporting of these sites for periods of 30 years or more. The impact of this program has been to significantly augment government resources and to provide the public with assurance that there would be meaningful oversight of these contaminated sites.

The Guardian Trust oversight programs have facilitated the development of contaminated sites while providing communities with the knowledge and tools to understand and participate in the oversight process. Government is relieved of the day-to-day burden of providing monitoring and reporting for these sites. The Trust provides these services and reports the results to the government. The program also provides significant cost savings to the private sector as the Trust's operations streamline the oversight process and pass these savings on to private sector clients.

Through these Guardian Trust programs, Earth Pledge has shown that enhanced environmental protection of communities is possible within a realistic cost framework. The safety of the development process is augmented, government is able to obtain relief of its resource burdens and communities gain meaningful participation into the process of rejuvenating our land resources.