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Compliance and Enforcement Annual Results:
FY2005 Enforcement Highlights

FY2005 Annual Results Topics

PDF version of Civil and Criminal Enforcement Highlights (PDF, 86K, 15 pages, About PDF)

EPA’s enforcement program protects human health and the environment by taking legal action to bring polluters into compliance with the federal environmental laws. The program has both civil and criminal enforcement authorities. The level of proof between civil and criminal enforcement, the nature of the violations and the results of the prosecution of the cases highlights the difference between the two type of enforcement actions.

The civil enforcement program halts the release of many millions of tons of illegal pollution into the air, water, and onto the ground by requiring violators to operate in compliance with the law; to clean up contamination caused; and to prevent the pollution from recurring.

The criminal enforcement program uses stringent sanctions, including jail, to address egregious environmental harm and conduct that generally involves willful or knowing disregard of the law, including the U.S. criminal code.

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