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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.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Rules with Compliance Built In
- Chapter 2. Noncompliance with Environmental Rules Is Worse Than You Think
- Chapter 3. Rules about Rules
- Chapter 4. Getting in Our Own Way: How EPA Guidance Reinforces Faulty Compliance Assumptions
- Chapter 5. Next Gen Strategies: A Playbook
- Chapter 6. The Ideologues: Performance Standards and Market Strategies
- Chapter 7. Ensuring Zero-Carbon Electricity
- Chapter 8. Don't Double Down on Past Mistakes with Low-Carbon Fuels
- Chapter 9. Innovative Strategies Are the Only Way to Cut Methane from Oil and Gas
- Chapter 10. Updating Federalism
- Chapter 11. Environmental Enforcement in the Next Gen Era
- Conclusion
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
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There is beauty in simplicity...Cynthia Giles' central thesis is admirably simple: there are lessons to be learned from why some regulatory approaches work — increasing compliance with a particular rule in line with its intentions — while others do not.
