Environmental Enforcement
Environmental enforcement includes efforts by federal and state governments to ensure compliance with environmental laws through fines and other penalties. We include environmental enforcement and environmental policy articles as well as stories that specifically focus on enforcement of environmental laws ranging from the storage of hazardous waste to the control of GHG emissions. Stories focus on government organizations such as the EPA’s enforcement efforts as well as challenges by corporations to environmental enforcement regulation.
Contraband Hospital Waste Returns to US
Brazil has sent 46.6 tons of contraband waste from American hospitals back to the U.S., Fox News reports.
Customs agents intercepted the container of waste ...
Policy & Enforcement: Deepwater Horizon, Wind Tower Anti-Dumping Claim, Rio+20, Thai Flood Plan
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a U.S. District Judge to declare BP, Anadarko and Transocean, as Deepwater Horizon owners and operators of vessels or ...
World’s Largest Metal Recycler Ordered to Stop Discharges
The world's largest metals and electronics recycler, Sims Metal Management, has been illegally discharging PCBs, mercury, lead, copper and zinc into San Francisco ...
Refiners Fined for Failing to Use Non-Existent Fuel
Refiners expect to pay about $6.8 million in government penalties for failing to mix cellulosic biofuel into their gasoline and diesel – even ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Northern Gateway, EU ETS, USDA, Vermont CEP
The elders of the Haisla First Nation voiced their opposition at the opening of a regulatory joint review hearing in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, on ...
Recyclers Arrested, Charged with Stealing Plastic
Los Angeles police made three arrests at two recycling businesses after discovering over $250,000 worth of stolen plastic containers, according to the county ...
What Delay? New Light Bulbs Hitting Shelves in 2012
We've been covering the impending 2012 light bulb regulations since they were first voted into law. Earlier this month, however, Congress passed a ...
Most Read Sustainable Business Stories of 2011
Every day this week we've been looking at a different aspect of environmental and sustainability management and counting down the top stories that grabbed ...
EPA to Finalize Power Plant Mercury Rules This Week
The EPA finished writing mercury-control rules for utilities on Friday, according to the Washington Post.
Several sources told the paper that ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Lightbulb Ban Delayed; EU Carbon Market; Hydropower Bill
The House has voted to delay enforcement of new light bulb efficiency standards until at least Oct. 1 as part of a last-minute budget deal to ...
Case Set to Challenge EPA's GHG Regs
Oral arguments will begin February 28 in a case challenging a "weak link" in the EPA's regulatory process for greenhouse gas emissions, according to ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17 Durban, Gulf Coast Task Force, Chevron Fined
Durban: The world's biggest polluters -China, the United States and India - remain firmly against a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions. The nations ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17-Durban, EU Aviation Regulation, Boiler MACT, Clean Air Act
Durban: The draft plan for the United Nations Green Climate Fund - a financing system that would deliver $100 billion a year in aid to developing ...
GHG and the Crystal Ball: EPA’s Not-So-Clear Path Forward
Join Environmental Leader for a webinar on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11am PST/2pm EST, discussing the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Mandatory ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: UN Conference, Chevy Volt Fire Risk, Electric Bills to Rise
The United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off in Durban today, presenting the last chance for countries to come to an agreement on extending the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: More EPA Delays, Solar Trade Dispute, Chevron Fined
The EPA said it will delay proposing the country's first-ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries, the latest setback for the agency that has struggled to ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Climate Pact Setback, California Tailpipe Rules, Biofuel Support
The world's richest countries have all but given up on a new climate treaty that would take effect this decade ahead of next month's talks in ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Carbon Rules, Soot Standard, Competing Studies
The EPA said that it will propose twice-delayed rules for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants early next year, Reuters reported. The agency delayed the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Energy IG Report, Keystone XL Reroute, Pickens Plan
The criticism is coming from all corners for the Energy Department. The department's inspector general issued a report on Tuesday recommending that the department rein in ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: ANWR Drilling Push, Canada Reacts, EV Fire Probe
A jobs-related proposal from House Republicans to support new infrastructure spending is dominating by a plan to massively expand offshore oil and gas leasing and open ...
