Rob Brenner played a key role in the development, Congressional passage, and implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the most significant and far-reaching environmental law passed in the last 25 years. Since passage of that landmark law, Mr. Brenner has focused on innovative, cost-effective ways to implement its provisions, particularly through the use of market-based approaches such as emissions trading and other economic incentives. He has been a leader in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) efforts to promote development of new, more effective pollution-control technologies such as diesel retrofits, and has pioneered the use of economic analysis in evaluating the effectiveness of EPA programs.
Both former President George H.W. Bush in 1993 and former President Clinton in 1998 conferred on Mr. Brenner the rank of meritorious senior executive. In 2003, he received the Distinguished Executive Award for “sustained extraordinary accomplishment” from former President George W. Bush. Before coming to EPA in 1979, Rob worked at Princeton University’s Center for International Studies. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.