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 Stories About: Department of Justice AND politics AND US EPA
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Shocker: EPA enforcement declines
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David Roberts |
23 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| File this under Predictable but Depressing: Environmental enforcement efforts by U.S. EPA and the Justice Department have plummeted over the last five years, resulting in a 38 percent decline in criminal fines and a 25 percent drop in civil penalties, according to a new report [PDF] from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project. (You need a password to get to the story, but not to get to the report.) |
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| Topics: Department of Justice, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Black Labs
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22 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Black Labs Private laboratories have been caught faking environmental test results, according to officials in the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department. Companies often use private laboratories to test air, water, soil, petroleum, underground tanks, and other products and indicators; a clean tests yields a certificate of compliance with environmental regulation ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Department of Justice, environmental justice, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist
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24 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and a coalition of Republican colleagues, manufacturers, and trucking industry reps are pressuring the Bush administration to postpone a strict new anti-pollution standard for diesel trucks. Why? Because Illinois-based Caterpillar ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Justice, health, Illinois, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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