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CSLS Special Event – Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era

Monday, March 3, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 6:15 pm

Featuring Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

Abstract:

Senior environmental officials at both the state and federal level often give the public the same reassurance about environmental compliance. Almost all companies comply, they say. The large companies comply; it is mainly the small ones that have compliance issues. Does the evidence agree? In a word: no. The data reveal that for most rules the rate of serious noncompliance — violations that pose the biggest risks to public health and the environment — is 25 percent or more…Rampant violations have real consequences: areas of the country that are not achieving air pollution standards, impaired water quality for half of the nation’s rivers and streams, contaminated drinking water, public exposure to dangerous chemicals, and avoidable environmental catastrophes with health, ecological, and economic damages.

Introduced by:
Catherine Albiston, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law; Professor of Sociology; Faculty Director of The Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley

Comments by: 
Daniel Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law; Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, UC Berkeley

Light refreshments will be provided.
Program: 3:30-5:15 p.m.
Reception: 5:15-6:15 p.m.
 
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Details

Date:
Monday, March 3, 2025
Time:
3:30 pm - 6:15 pm
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Website:
https://csls.berkeley.edu/speakers-events/csls-speaker-series

Venue

295 Law Building – Warren Room
2745 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, 94720 United States

Organizer

Center for the Study of Law and Society
Email:
csls@law.berkeley.edu
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