Download or read book Oversight Hearing on EPA s Work with Other Federal Entities to Reduce Pollution and Improve Environmental Performance written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oversight hearing on EPA's work with other federal entities to reduce pollution and improve environmental performance : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, March 27, 2012.
Download or read book Oversight Hearing on Epas Work With Other Federal Entities to Reduce Pollution and Improve Environmental Performance written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oversight hearing on EPA's work with other federal entities to reduce pollution and improve environmental performance : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, March 27, 2012.
Download or read book Oversight hearing on EPA s work with other federal entities to reduce pollution and improve environmental performance written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight Hearing on EPA s Work with Other Federal Entities to Reduce Pollution and Improve Environmental Performance written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal state Relationship written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Compliance by Federal Agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of the Proposed EPA Budget on State and Local Environmental Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Toxic Substances and Environmental Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA Mismanagement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of EPA s Environmental Justice Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Integrity and Transparency Reforms at the Environmental Protection Agency written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA Contract Mismanagement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA s Air Pollution Control Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of Right to know Pollution Data written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean, and Water Protection and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA s Particulate Matter and Ozone Rulemaking written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Enforcement written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of its mission to protect human health and the environment, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) enforcement office maintains civil and criminal enforcement programs to help enforce the requirements of major federal environmental laws such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. EPA's civil and criminal enforcement programs work with the Department of Justice (DOJ), and in some cases states, to take legal actions to bring polluters into compliance with federal laws. While civil enforcement actions require polluters to pay penalties and take other corrective actions, criminal enforcement actions also may include imprisonment. EPA's enforcement office sets national priorities to focus resources on significant environmental risks and non-compliance patterns; prepares nationally significant civil and criminal cases for legal action by DOJ; uses 10 regional offices to implement civil enforcement actions on a day-to-day basis; and pursues criminal violations of environmental laws through its criminal enforcement office. The agency exercises its authority to independently pursue some violators through administrative proceedings--civil administrative actions--and to refer significant matters to DOJ when it believes cases need to be filed in federal court as civil judicial actions ... EPA relies on a variety of measures to assess and report on the effectiveness of its civil and criminal enforcement programs ... EPA has developed penalty policies as guidance for determining appropriate penalties in civil administrative cases and referring civil judicial cases. The policies are based on environmental statutes and have an important goal of deterring potential polluters from violating environmental laws and regulations. The purpose of EPA's penalties is to eliminate the economic benefit a violator gained from noncompliance and to reflect the gravity of the alleged harm to the environment or public health. Like other federal agencies, EPA has established results-oriented goals and performance measures. Two of the major performance measures for civil enforcement, according to EPA, are (1) the value of injunctive relief--the monetary value of future investments necessary for an alleged violator to come into compliance, and (2) pollution reduction--the pounds of pollution to be reduced, treated, or eliminated as a result of an enforcement action. EPA told us these two measures, as well as penalties, should be considered when assessing the overall impact of its enforcement actions. EPA relies on these measures, among others, in pursuing its national enforcement priorities and overall strategy of fewer, but higher impact, cases. Unless these measures are meaningful, Congress and the public will not be able to determine the effectiveness of the programs. Therefore, it is important to understand how they are determined and the extent to which they accurately reflect EPA's accomplishments. In this context, we agreed to report on (1) amounts of civil and criminal penalties assessed in recent years and how EPA calculates and reports on these outcomes, (2) the value of injunctive relief and amounts of pollution reduction and how EPA calculates and reports on these outcomes, and (3) factors that influence EPA's process in achieving enforcement outcomes. This report recommends steps that EPA should take to improve the transparency and accuracy of its reports to Congress and the public when reporting on the effectiveness of its enforcement programs.
Download or read book The Federal state Relationship Environmental Self Audits written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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