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.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shipping Emissions Standstill, City's Feed-In Tariff, China Misses 2011 Target
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has yet to come up with a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from international shipping, after concluding a week ...
BP Reaches $7.8bn Oil Spill Settlement with Businesses, Individuals
BP announced that it has reached a $7.8 billion settlement proposal with the individual and business plaintiffs represented by the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC), ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: BP Trial, Forest Emissions, FTC Hits Window Claims
BP and plaintiffs suing over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are discussing a $14 billion settlement that appears to be nearing completion. ...
ExxonMobil Fined $4.4m for Under-Reporting Carbon Emissions
ExxonMobil was fined £2.8 million ($4.4 million) after failing to report carbon emissions from a Scottish chemical plant, it has emerged.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: E15 Approved, Dioxin Exposure, Fracking Study, Utility MACT, Shell
The EPA approved ethanol fuel blend E15 for voluntary use in all autos and light trucks built since 2001 after completing testing of E15’s impact ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, EU ETS, MATS, MACT, 2012 CGP
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, an effort to reduce black carbon, ...
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 ...
