Geoff Garver is an environmental law and policy consultant in Montreal, Quebec. From 2000 to 2007, he served as Director of Submissions on Enforcement Matters at North America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation, directing the unit that handles assertions by North American citizens that one of the NAFTA countries — Mexico, the United States or Canada — is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law.
Previously, he spent nine years with the U.S. Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division as a trial attorney and then as an Acting Assistant Chief handling cases concerning land and natural resource management, water rights and environmental impact assessment. His major cases included suits dealing with Everglades water quality, winter use and bison management in Yellowstone National Park and water rights in Idaho and Oregon.
From 1993 to 1995, he was special assistant and Senior Policy Counsel to the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Before joining the U.S. Justice Department in 1989, he was a judicial clerk for the Hon. Conrad Cyr in the U.S. District Court in Maine. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1982 and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987. Geoff grew up in a Quaker family in rural Western New York.
Geoff Garver is a co-author of Right Relationship. Building a Whole Earth Economy. Widely available at book stores and Amazon.
