Compliance and Enforcement Annual Results:
FY2007 Enforcement Activities Highlights

FY2007 Annual Results Topics

EPA’s Civil Enforcement program concentrates on significant violations of federal environmental laws. Through legal actions and incentives for voluntary compliance, civil enforcement achieves results that reduce harmful air pollution and the discharge of raw sewage, and cleans up contamination of the land. Civil settlements may include supplemental environmental projects: voluntary projects that a settling party undertakes in addition to whatever must be done to bring a facility into compliance.

EPA's Criminal Enforcement program investigates and helps to prosecute environmental violations which seriously threaten public health and the environment or involve culpable conduct that may be willful, intentional, or deliberate. Besides environmental violations, cases may also address U.S. criminal code violations such as conspiracy, false statements, witness tampering, or interfering with law enforcement investigations. Criminal enforcement sanctions -- which may include incarceration of individuals in addition to monetary fines against individuals, businesses, or corporations represent the enforcement program's strongest sanction and deterrent.

The Fiscal Year 2007 Enforcement Highlights include the following categories:

Air Highlights

Civil Air Highlights

Criminal Air Highlights

Water Highlights

Civil Water Highlights

Criminal Water Highlights

Land Highlights

Civil Land Highlights

Criminal Land Highlights

RCRA Enforcement

Cross-Media Highlights

Civil Cross-Media Highlights

Criminal Cross-Media Highlights

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Compliance and Enforcement Annual Results: FY2007 Enforcement Activities Highlights