Environment

“Next Gen” thinking is fundamentally optimistic that we have the tools to improve regulatory compliance, if only we decide to use them.

Next Gen innovation must be paired with traditional enforcement and formal evaluation mechanisms to work effectively.

Five conditions have stunted EPA’s efforts to improve enforcement capabilities.

The next generation of compliance will be advanced by both public and private governance.

A new book by a leading environmental regulator argues for creating rules that better facilitate industry compliance.

Cynthia Giles has written a book that deserves to be read by all regulatory practitioners and scholars.

Carbon offsets exemplify the challenges in creating effective environmental regulations.

Scholar argues that federal regulatory interventions are needed to reduce plastic wastes.

Scholars analyze decreasing environmental prosecutions and propose enforcement improvements.

Scholars call for the development of solar energy on agricultural land.

Scholars propose a new means of holding corporations accountable for emissions reduction pledges.

An EU law requiring deforestation-free exports could impact economies and ecologies around the world.