EPA is Prosecuting Fewer Polluters under Bush Administration

By Jacob Leon Beier
Impunity Watch Senior Desk Officer, North America

WASHINGTON DC, United States of America - The Washington Post reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has prosecuted a third less polluters while the Bush Administration has been in power.  Critics claim that the EPA's inaction has "emboldened polluters" who reason that they will not be prosecuted for violating US environmental law.  Eric Schaeffer, former director of the Office of Civil Enforcement, argued, "You don't get cleanup, and you don't get deterrence."  Schaeffer resigned in 2002 in protest to the administration's lack of diligent oversight and prosecution.

For more information, please see:
The Washington Post - Bush's EPA is Pursuing Fewer Polluters - 30 September 2007