Tag: Clean Water Act

Will You Do the Time for an Enviro Crime?

By Clare Condon Jan 18, 2012 EHS Management

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

EPA’s Criminal Enforcement Division (CID) has changed priorities in recent years and has been seeking prosecution of individual defendants as high up the corporate hierarchy as there is evidence. For this the Agency offers one simple reason–corporate managers will think twice about deliberately breaking the law if they understand that they face jail time and […]

EPA’s Strategy for Improving CWA

By Clare Condon Dec 23, 2011 Special Topics in Environmental Management

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

These new threats are so widespread that EPA has released a strategy to place more emphasis on protecting healthy waters. And, existing resources may have to be spread even thinner to meet standards. According to EPA, sources of stress vary regionally, but mainly comprise agriculture; stormwater runoff; habitat, hydrology and landscape modification; invasive species; the […]