Can local environmental regulation of companies deal with a broader environmental view?

Environmental concern of companies has gradually expanded from a focus on local environmental problems to a broader inclusion of inputs as well as lifecycle perspectives. At the same time, the regulatory approach has changed from a “pure” command-and-control regime, towards a governance regime, where strict regulations increasingly are supplemented with other regulatory instruments such as economic incentives, information and facilitation.
In Denmark, municipalities are the competent authority for companies. Throughout the last decade, several attempts to expand competences of municipalities to include more facilitating and catalytic aspects as well as promoting cleaner technology and pollution prevention have been tried out. However today, most municipalities still rely on traditional command-and-control mechanisms as well as targeting at the traditional local environmental concerns.
However the reason years renewed focus on Climate and Energy seems to provide perspectives to reintroduces this more facilitating role and focus on broader environmental aspects.