{"id":3042,"date":"2010-12-06T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2010-12-06T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:27:42","slug":"epa-announces-2010-enforcement-and-compliance-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/epa-announces-2010-enforcement-and-compliance-results\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Announces 2010 Enforcement and Compliance Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 1.4 billion pounds of harmful air, land, and water pollution to be reduced<\/em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the release of its annual enforcement and compliance results. In fiscal year (FY) 2010, EPA took enforcement and compliance actions that require polluters to pay more than $110 million in civil penalties and commit to spend an estimated $12 billion on pollution controls, cleanup, and environmental projects that benefit communities. These actions when completed will reduce pollution by more than 1.4 billion pounds and protect businesses that comply with regulations by holding non-compliant businesses accountable when environmental laws are violated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt EPA, we are dedicated to aggressively go after pollution problems that make a difference in our communities through vigorous civil and criminal enforcement,\u201d stated Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for EPA\u2019s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. \u201cOur commitment to environmental enforcement is grounded in the knowledge that people not only desire, but expect, the protection of the water they drink, the air they breathe and the communities they call home.\u201d
\nEPA\u2019s civil enforcement actions for violations of the Clean Air Act alone will account for the reduction of an estimated 400 million pounds of air pollution per year.\u00a0Those reductions will represent between $6.2 billion and $15 billion annually in avoided health costs. As a result of water cases concluded in FY 2010, EPA is ensuring that an estimated 1 billion pounds of water pollution per year will be reduced, eliminated or properly managed and investments in pollution control and environmental improvement projects from parties worth approximately $8 billion will be made. EPA\u2019s civil enforcement actions also led to commitments to treat, minimize or properly dispose of more than an estimated 11.8 billion pounds of hazardous waste.<\/p>\n

EPA\u2019s criminal enforcement program opened 346 new environmental crime cases in FY 2010. These cases led to 289 defendants charged for allegedly committing environmental crimes, the largest number in five years, 198 criminals convicted and $41 million assessed in fines and restitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s annual results include an enhanced mapping tool that allows the public to view detailed information about the enforcement actions taken at more than 4,500 facilities that concluded in FY 2010 on an interactive map of the United States and its territories. The map shows facilities and sites where civil and criminal enforcement actions were taken for alleged violations of U.S. environmental laws regulating air, water, and land pollution. The mapping tool also displays community-based activities like the locations of the environmental justice grants awarded in FY 2010 and the Environmental Justice Showcase Communities.<\/p>\n

The release of the EPA\u2019s enforcement and compliance results and the accompanying mapping tool are part of EPA\u2019s commitment to transparency. They are intended to improve public access to data and provide the public with tools to demonstrate EPA\u2019s efforts to protect human health and the environment in communities across the nation.<\/p>\n

View the FY 2010 results and an announcement message from Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Cynthia Giles: http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/compliance\/resources\/reports\/endofyear\/eoy2010\/index.html<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 1.4 billion pounds of harmful air, land, and water pollution to be reduced WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the release of its annual enforcement and compliance results. In fiscal year (FY) 2010, EPA took enforcement and compliance actions that require polluters to pay more than $110 million in … Continue reading EPA Announces 2010 Enforcement and Compliance Results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}