Next Generation Compliance

Nearly everyone accepts as gospel two assumptions: compliance with environmental rules is high, and enforcement is responsible for making compliance happen. Both are wrong. Next Generation Compliance shows how regulators can avoid the compliance calamities that plague far too many environmental rules today, a lesson that is particularly urgent for regulations tackling climate change.

Cynthia Giles served as the Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance throughout the Obama Presidency. Previously, she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney, the head of Massachusetts' water protection program, a senior regional official at the EPA, and a Vice President of a New England NGO. More recently, she was the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the University of Chicago Energy & Environment Lab, and a Guest Fellow at Harvard's Environmental and Energy Law Program. She has a BA (Cornell University), JD (University of California at Berkeley), and MPA (Harvard Kennedy School of Government).