Steven A. Herman
Principal
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- Rutgers University (B.A., 1966)
- Rutgers University (J.D., 1969)
- New York (1973)
- District of Columbia (2001)
- American Bar Association
Steven Herman is a Principal in Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.'s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Herman's practice focuses on the areas of environmental enforcement and compliance. He has counseled and represented major corporate clients trying to avoid adverse enforcement actions by federal and/or state government agencies, and clients who have become the subject of such actions. He also advises clients on strategies for engaging federal and state governmental agencies on environmental and other significant issues.
Mr. Herman served for eight years as the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance assurance of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Herman, who was the chief national environmental enforcement official, supervised a Headquarters and regional civil and criminal staff of over 3,500, including criminal agents, investigators, inspectors, attorneys, engineers, scientists and other professionals. He was responsible for the development and implementation of numerous EPA enforcement and compliance policies including the widely used "Policy on Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations", the policy on Supplemental Environmental Projects, numerous Superfund administrative reforms, and the establishment of the first compliance assistance centers and numerous compliance assistance tools.
Mr. Herman represented the United States at meetings with Mexico and Canada pursuant to the NAFTA, at meetings of the G-8 environmental officials, and in numerous bi-lateral contexts. He was also the founder and first co-chair of the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), an informal partnership of government officials, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
Before joining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mr. Herman was an Assistant Section Chief and senior trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice for fifteen years. He litigated numerous matters involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal Quiet Title Act, the Antiquities Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and other complex land use matters of national interest.
Mr. Herman has been a frequent speaker at international conferences in the United States and overseas, bar groups, and trade associations, discussing numerous matters related to environmental enforcement and other environmental and natural resource issues.
