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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

EPA'S CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM OVERVIEW

FROM:  U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY 
Criminal Enforcement Overview

EPA’s criminal enforcement program pursues individual and corporate defendants who have committed serious environmental crimes by providing:

Federal, state and local prosecutors with the evidence needed to prosecute environmental crimes.

Environmental forensic analyses and technical evaluations for both civil and criminal enforcement.

Computer evidence retrieval and evaluation.

Expert legal advice and counsel to EPA, U.S. Attorneys and the Department of Justice.

EPA's criminal enforcement program was established in 1982 and was granted full law enforcement authority by Congress in 1988. Today the program has more than 350 specially trained investigators, chemists, engineers, technicians, lawyers, and support staff.  From that number EPA has:

200 fully authorized federal law enforcement agents.

70 forensic scientists and technicians.

45 attorneys who specialize in environmental crimes enforcement.

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