| Federal Criminal Environmental Prosecutions Continue to Fall |
| (01 Feb 2018)
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first three months of FY 2018 the government reported 55 new criminal environment prosecutions.
If environmental prosecutions continue at the same pace, the annual total of prosecutions will be 220 for this fiscal year. According to the case- by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, this estimate would be the lowest ever recorded since the Justice Department started tracking its environmental prosecutions over two decades ago.
In comparison, in the last year of the Obama administration there were 393 environmental prosecutions filed. During FY 2017, this number had dropped to 338. Thus, if trends continue for the remainder of this year, FY 2018's total will be a sizable drop from last year. Six out of ten of these environmental prosecutions so far this year involved violations of wildlife protection laws, in contrast to other types of environmental crimes. To read the full report, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/499/ In addition to these most recent overall figures, TRAC continues to offer free monthly reports on selected government agencies such as the FBI, ATF, DHS and the IRS. TRAC's reports also monitor program categories such as official corruption, drugs, weapons, white collar crime and terrorism. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through December 2017, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/ Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through December 2017 is available to TRACFed subscribers via the Express and Going Deeper tools. Go to http://tracfed.syr.edu for more information. Customized reports for a specific agency, district, program, lead charge or judge are available via the TRAC Data Interpreter, either as part of a TRACFed subscription or on a per-report basis. Go to http://trac.syr.edu/interpreter to start. If you want to be sure to receive notifications whenever updated data become available, sign up at: http://tracfed.syr.edu/cgi-bin/tracuser.pl?pub=1&list=imm or follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreports TRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the US Federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/cgi-bin/sponsor/sponsor.pl |
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