Firm at Center of Hunters Point Fraud Scandal Rewarded With More Government Work
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PEER | January 18, 2019
From: Curbed SF “Tetra Tech, the engineering firm paid more than $250 million by the U.S. Navy to remove radioactive contamination from San Francisco’s Hunters Point has so far escaped any serious punishment, with a $7,000 fine from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission waived on ...
EPA Prosecutions Against Polluters Lowest in 30 Years
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PEER | January 17, 2019
From: Fortune “Of the 166 cases referred last year for prosecution, just 62 federal convictions were secured, the lowest since 1995. Jeff Ruch, executive director of the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told Fortune in an email that the decline in criminal ...
EPA Prosecution of ‘Egregious’ Pollution Cases at a 30-Year Low
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From: Courthouse News “According to Justice Department data gathered by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the EPA opened 166 criminal cases against polluters in 2018 – 60 percent less than in 2011, and 72 percent less than 1988. When asked for comment, the EPA ...
Andrew Wheeler Returns to the Senate for EPA Administrator Confirmation Hearing
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From: News Channel 5 “The day before the hearing, an environmental group released a new report claiming the EPA’s “criminal enforcement program was missing in action” last year. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility documented a decline in criminal referrals ...
GAO Investigating EPA’s Low Enforcement Numbers
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From: The Hill “News of the probe comes as EPA’s Inspector General (IG) continues its own investigation into the agency’s enforcement figures and as the EPA is gearing up to release its 2018 enforcement numbers, which are expected to be even lower than the previous year. Data ...