Sentence examples for citizen enforcement from inspiring English sources

So aggressive citizen enforcement could not only reduce climate changing emissions, but reduce the federal deficit.

3 The Act also grants federal district courts jurisdiction over certain kinds of citizen enforcement actions.

For example, citizen enforcement has long been a key component of the Clean Water Act as a "watershed watchdogs" supplement and often prompt official government cleanup action.

FIG. 2. Statewide trends in the spill rate calculated for collection systems that have (black line) and have not (blue shading) experienced SSO-related citizen enforcement.

Public collection system agencies and environmental groups have widely divergent perceptions of the effectiveness and appropriateness of SSO-related citizenforcementenforcement

Citizen enforcement has always been an important part of the US Clean Water Act, which aims to prevent dangerous water pollution through regulation.

FIG. 3. Post-citizen enforcement changes in collection system performance metrics.

To Justice Antonin Scalia, however, giving citizens enforcement power gave plaintiffs too much bargaining power and threatened democratic governance.

To stop the traffickers, citizens, enforcement authorities and judicial officers all have a role to play.

Spokane Riverkeeper, Bart Mihailovich In December of 2009, Spokane Riverkeeper filed a sixty day "notice of violation" with the City of Spokane as a precedent to a federal citizen-enforcement lawsuit to enforce, under the Clean Water Act, a dramatic reduction in these illegal discharges.

The tactic has established a closed circle that has turned citizens' law enforcement agencies into contractors of a state that is directing acts of increasing severity against US citizens.