EIP Data: Pollution Enforcement Efforts Under Bush Administration's EPA Drop on Four Out of Five Key Fronts

U.S. Newswire, May, 2007

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Ailis Aaron Wolf, 1-703-276-3265, aaaron@hastingsgroup.com, for the Environmental Integrity Project

WASHINGTON, May 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Enforcement actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the most recent five full fiscal years of the Bush Administration have fallen on four out of five key fronts compared to the last five years of the EPA under the Clinton Administration, according to new data released today by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP).

The new EIP report examines the track record of 10 years of EPA enforcement and finds it is down by about a quarter or more in terms of court filings, criminal investigations, civil fines and criminal penalties. The report also credits the hard...

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