Len Miller spent 12 years at the U.S. EPA and its predecessor agency the National Air Pollution Control Administration. He helped create and build the structure still used for many of today’s federal rules governing air and water pollution, including the designation of Air Quality Control Regions, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (water permits) and the procedures for water pollution enforcement. His work is memorialized in the regulations that still govern much of the operations of EPA permit issuance.
During his EPA tenure, Len was sent by the Agency to Seattle to open the EPA Region 10 office for the Pacific Northwest (Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska). He was the first Regional Air Pollution Control Director and later the Regional Enforcement Division Director.
In subsequent roles at EPA headquarters, Len was Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water Enforcement and Permits, where he headed up the nation’s water enforcement effort. He created the modern-day environmental permit system and set the policy on water discharges from all segments of U.S. industry and municipalities – a program heralded as one of the country’s most successful pollution reductions.
Since leaving government in 1980, Len has both represented some of the largest corporations in the world and championed startups. He has been particularly involved in representing new generic companies entering the U.S. agricultural chemical industry, assisting numerous pesticide companies from around the world to successfully secure U.S registrations and enter the U.S. market.
Len was selected as a 2015 Fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, a year-long program for accomplished leaders at the top of their fields to re-engage with Harvard University and address national and global challenges.
