Sentence examples for citizens enforcement from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

"With plastic facilities, controlling pollution should be pretty simple," says George Torgun, lead attorney for San Francisco-based Baykeeper, a nonprofit that has led several Clean Water Act citizen enforcement campaigns.

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

Smith's project focused on a potential citizen enforcement solution: He 3D-printed at Columbia's Makerspace a drone prototype with the hope to mount a camera to enable Indonesian farmers to collect evidence of violations.