Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Rules with compliance built in -- Noncompliance with environmental rules is worse than you think -- Rules about rules -- Getting in our own way : how EPA guidance reinforces faulty compliance assumptions -- Next gen strategies : a playbook -- The ideologues : performance standards and market strategies -- Ensuring zero carbon electricity -- Don't double down on past mistakes with low carbon fuels -- Innovative strategies are the only way to cut methane from oil and gas -- Updating federalism -- Environmental enforcement in the next gen era -- Conclusion.

"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% or more. For many rules with big health consequences the serious noncompliance rates for large facilities are 50% to 70% or even higher. And those are just the ones we know about; for many rules, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has no idea what the rate of noncompliance is"-- Provided by publisher.