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According to data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University in April 2024, environmental prosecutions at the Justice Department are still down from 2019 levels. In 2019, under would-be insurrectionist Jeffrey Clark’s leadership, the Justice Department’s environmental division secured $3.3 billion in injunctive relief, $325 million in civil penalties, and nearly $87 million in criminal penalties. By comparison, in 2023, the division secured $2.3 billion in injunctive relief and $129 million in civil penalties. (In early 2024, though, the division did secure its single-largest civil penalty ever, $1.675 billion, from Cummins, Inc., for installing cheat devices in its vehicles to circumvent emissions tests.)
Broadly speaking, white-collar criminal prosecutions under Biden have continued their decades-long bipartisan decline.
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