Douglas Thompson

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Doug Thompson has a background in environmental protection, dispute resolution, and management. Areas of special interest and expertise include enforcement case negotiation; conflicts concerning regulatory or policy matters; freshwater and marine issues and habitat protection disputes.  Recent case work has included matters related to issues as diverse and drinking water disinfection, marine mammal concerns, nuclear waste and chemical weapons clean-up, the credibility of green marketing and sustainable product claims, pandemic flu planning, mountaintop removal mining conflicts, and endangered species. 

Prior to The Keystone Center, he spent over 25 years with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in various technical and management capacities including chief of wetland protection and chief of water enforcement. As part of EPA’s dispute resolution program, he served as a mediator and facilitator for a number of environmental issues; he also worked on assignment as a program associate to the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in Tucson, Arizona.  He has mediated extensively in the Massachusetts court system, is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Massachusetts Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, and has experience mediating EEO, workplace, and family disputes. He received a bachelor's degree in environmental science and a master's degree in biology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.