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Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse compiled the records from Justice Department and EPA cases for fiscal year 2019, which ended in September.
The EPA sent 190 cases to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution, the figures show. That’s up from 166 last year, the second year of the Trump administration, but otherwise the lowest since George H.W. Bush’s first term in 1990.
The Justice Department filed 75 EPA prosecutions in fiscal year 2019. That’s the lowest number since 1994, and down from a high of 198 in Bill Clinton’s second term.
Justice Department investigators won 60 federal convictions on pollution cases referred by the EPA, the fewest since 1995, according to the Syracuse University figures.
Information for this article was contributed by Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post and by Ellen Knickmeyer of The Associated Press.
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