limit the EPA’s authority?
What do they have to gain? Last year, according to the EPA’s own
press release detailing their enforcement efforts in fiscal year
1998, the EPA referred 266 criminal cases to the Department of
Justice, as well as 411 civil court cases. Approximately half of
the civil cases required violators to change the way they manage
their facilities or to reduce their emissions or discharges. The
EPA also assessed almost $93 million dollars in criminal fines
and another $92 million in civil penalties. In addition to fines
and penalties, polluters spent over $2 billion dollar
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