A year after 117 tons
of dead fish were collected from a contaminated river in an Indiana,
reporter David Rohn found that no one had been indicted, no fines
or penalties had been paid, no trial had been set, and no one
had stepped forward to take responsibility for one of the state's
worst environmental disasters. One of the key enforcers who wasn't
there was the federal government. With enforcement and staffing
data drawn from TRACFED, Rohn documented in a major front-page article
how federal prosecutors in Indiana ranked in the cellar when it
came to bringing charges against serious environmental violators.
