On November 16, 2009, ENRD will celebrate the Division's 100th Anniversary!
Commemorative celebration plans will be finalized over the next several months, but early planning already is underway.
Click the envelope icon above to subscribe to our 100th Anniversary updates, or email enrd100@usdoj.gov to send an idea to the planning committee.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
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 The Honorable Ronald J. Tenpas was appointed the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice on May 30, 2007 and was subsequently confirmed by the Senate to serve permanently as Assistant Attorney General.
As Assistant Attorney General, he oversees all environmental litigation involving the United States arising under more than 150 federal statutes. These statutes include the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund), the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, and many others. The Division’s work spans affirmative suits to stop polluters and recover clean-up costs; defending federal agencies in their administration of federal programs, including management of federal lands and other natural resources; defending federal regulatory agencies that issue environmental regulations; litigation relating to tribes and their lands; and condemnations of federal land for public uses. The Division has about 400 lawyers and annual expenditures in excess of $160 million.
Mr. Tenpas has worked in the Department for a number of years, serving as Associate Deputy Attorney General; as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois; as an Assistant United States Attorney and Branch Chief in the District of Maryland; and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Florida in Tampa, Florida, starting in 1997. He is former law clerk to the Honorable Louis Pollak, EDPA, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Mr. Tenpas received an International Relations degree from Michigan State University in 1985. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, receiving a degree in 1987. After Oxford he attended the University of Virginia Law School from which he graduated in 1990, and where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review.
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October 30, 2008
Agreements Ensure Funding for Cleanup of Connecticut Superfund Site (08-968)
The federal government, along with the state of Connecticut, has reached three related settlements with numerous responsible parties to ensure funding for environmental clean up activities at the Solvents Recovery Service of New England Superfund (SRSNE) site in Southington, Conn. ( Read more) Two Found Guilty of Conspiracy Involving the Importation and Sale of Falsely Labeled Fish from Vietnam (08-967)
Peter Xuong Lam, of Fairfax, Va., was found guilty late yesterday by a federal jury in Los Angeles of conspiring to import mislabeled fish in order to avoid federal import tariffs. Lam also was found guilty on three counts of dealing in fish that he knew had been imported contrary to law. ( Read more) October 21, 2008
Executives of Michigan Wastewater Treatment Company Found Guilty of Illegally Discharging Untreated Liquid Wastes (08-941)
A federal jury in Detroit has convicted three former managers of Comprehensive Environmental Solutions, Inc. (CESI), a company that operates an industrial waste treatment and disposal facility in Dearborn, Mich., following a three week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Victoria A. Roberts. ( Read more) October 17, 2008
Man Sentenced for Attempting to Illegally Import Big Game Leopard Trophy (08-933)
Jerry Mason, of Frankfort, S.D., pleaded guilty today and was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Denver for a false statement he provided to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in an attempt to illegally import a leopard hide and skull from a trophy hunt in South Africa. ( Read more) October 15, 2008
Company Convicted for Illegally Storing Hazardous Waste in Rhode Island (08-922)
The Southern Union Company, the Texas-based former owner of the New England Gas Company, was convicted today by a federal jury in Providence, R.I., for illegally storing mercury at a site in Pawtucket, R.I. ( Read more) |
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