water quantity, water pollution, drinking water, air pollution, toxic pollution, toxic waste, environmental health, auto pollution/diesel, polluter subsidies/green taxes, superfund/brownfields, land use/urban planning, public lands, transportation, sprawl
Background
Mr. Rumpler oversees policy and strategy development the environmental campaigns
for Environment Arizona and other groups. He has advised advocates on several
successful policy initiatives—including California’s first-in-the-nation
"polluter pay" law for drinking water contamination, New Jersey's designation of
45 "Category One" waterways, and North Carolina's recent law ordering cleanup
plans for key lakes.
He has served as senior advisor on numerous
reports on water quality and enforcement—including TexPIRG's "Asleep at the
Wheel," Environment Maine's "Off The Hook: Why Maine Needs Tough Penalties To
Protect Its Waters," Georgia PIRG’s "Budgeting For Clean Water: How Polluter
Fees Can Increase Georgia's Water Quality Enforcement," Environment California's
"Perchlorate and Children's Health: The Case for a Strong Cleanup Standard for
Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water," and Ohio PIRG's recent report "Sewage Overflow:
Billions Of Gallons Of Sewage Contaminate Lake Erie."
Before returning
to work with Environment Arizona and our allies, Mr. Rumpler practiced public
interest and environmental law, representing community organizations in land
use, zoning, and permitting matters. In 1998, he represented local activists in
Lowell, Mass.—defeating a proposed trash transfer station in a low-income
neighborhood after an all-out battle that included more than 15 public hearings.
At the height of the state tobacco litigation, Mr. Rumpler prevailed in
discovery matters against high-powered law firms representing R.J. Reynolds and
Phillip Morris. In 2002, he represented a coalition of community organizations
and transit riders in Boston, Mass., in negotiations with the MBTA—winning
bus-to-bus transfers and commitments to reduce diesel bus
emissions.
Education: J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1996;
B.A., Tufts University, 1988.
