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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December 2, 2008
Utah Gold and Silver Refinery Sentenced for Clean Water Act Violation (08-1059)
Johnson Matthey Inc. (JMI), a Pennsylvania corporation, was sentenced today to a $3 million criminal fine for a felony violation of the Clean Water Act by Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. ( Read more) December 1, 2008
PVC Manufacturers Agree to Reduce Air Pollutants and Strengthen Control of Hazardous Wastes (08-1057)
Shintech, Inc. and its subsidiary K-Bin, Inc., have agreed in a settlement filed today by the Justice Department and EPA to spend $4.8 million to comply with the Clean Air Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at their manufacturing facilities in Freeport, Texas. ( Read more) November 26, 2008
Portuguese Shipping Company and Two Employees Found Guilty of Enviromental Crimes (08-1054)
A federal jury in Corpus Christi, Texas returned guilty verdicts against General Maritime Management (Portugal), the operator of a fleet of tanker vessels, Chief Engineer Antonio Rodrigues, and First Engineer Jose Cavadas, for making false statements to the United States Coast Guard and failing to maintain an accurate oil record book as required by United States and international law. ( Read more) November 10, 2008
Japanese Operator of Cargo Vessel Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Falsifying Records (08-996)
Hiong Guan Navegacion Japan Co. Ltd., operator of the commercial cargo ship Balsa 62, agreed to plead guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tampa, Fla., to conspiracy and to falsifying and failing to properly maintain records meant to ensure environmental compliance. ( Read more) November 4, 2008
Plantation Pipe Line Will Pay Penalty for Fuel Spills in Va., N.C., Ga. (08-980)
Plantation Pipe Line Company, Alpharetta, Ga., has agreed to pay a civil penalty and implement safeguards in order to resolve a Clean Water Act lawsuit over fuel pipeline spills in three states. ( Read more) |
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