Justice Lloyd of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court (author: interesting that they have a separate court) criminally sentenced both a local government official and the local government body for violating environmental laws. This case is significant because the prosecution was against another governmental body, not a private corporation or individual.
Geoff Freeman was [...]
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Alan Hersh, the 70 year old former owner of a barrel recycler, was sentenced to prison and fined for hazardous waste violations in February, 2009. He was ordered to spend 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitutionf or clean up [...]
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Europe is advanced in its environmental laws, and in some legal circles, it is believed that the United States has ceded its leadership and policy developing position to the Europeans. The guts of European environmental laws are written at the individual country or member state level. This is where the detailed regulations are found. However, [...]
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The United States EPA debuted its “Fugitive Environmental Criminal List” in December of 2008.
Check it out here:
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/criminal/fugitives/index.html
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