Sentence examples for Pollution prosecution from inspiring English sources

Under the 1990 Pollution Prosecution Act, the division is supposed to have no fewer than 200 criminal investigators.

On environmental issues, he helped draft clean air laws, wrote the Pollution Prosecution Act of 1990, exposed lax security measures in nuclear power plants and supported minimum-wage increases and laws to protect whistle-blowers.

In a witness statement prepared by a conservation officer at Natural Resources Wales for the pollution prosecution, the officer also alleged that a stream had been reprofiled, deepened and widened without the necessary consent - although no prosecution was brought on this issue.

It is the first time the MCA has used satellite imagery as the main source of evidence in a maritime pollution prosecution in the UK.

Last fiscal year, the division referred 166 pollution cases for prosecution, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

Although this was not ruled on by the court, which simply found that pollution had occurred, the prosecution summary alleged that "there is a history [of] poor management despite advice and guidance from Natural Resources Wales".

Although this was not ruled on by the court, which simply found that pollution had occurred, the prosecution summary alleged that "there is a history [of] poor management despite advice and guidance from Natural Resources Wales". Neither brother wished to comment on this claim.

A11 Farmers Offered Amnesty The Environmental Protection Agency said it would shield operators of large livestock operations from prosecution for air pollution violations if they participated in a new program to collect emissions data.

Just last month in a separate incident, water company Severn Trent Water was fined almost £7,000 for allowing pollution to enter the River Trent after a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.

Within weeks of the blaze on the Cuyahoga, the federal government threatened six industrial firms with prosecution if they did not reduce pollution.

Their argument is that if businesses are given incentives, like immunity from fines and prosecution, for reporting and cleaning up their own pollution, most will do the right thing -- a so-called self-audit.