EPA’s Criminal Enforcement Increasingly Focused On Clean Air Cases

November 14, 2019
EPA is increasingly focusing its criminal enforcement efforts on Clean Air Act (CAA) cases, current and former officials say, with the agency for the first time in fiscal year 2019 opening more investigation into alleged CAA violations than alleged Clean Water Act (CWA) violations, though overall criminal prosecutions are declining. Part of the reason so many CWA cases have been prosecuted, historically, is that it is the most straightforward environmental statute, David Uhlmann, a professor at the University of Michigan...


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