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Mr. Berrospi, who worked as an environmental prosecutor until August, recited a bitter catalog of frustrations.

But even members of her own party criticized the cuts she made in environmental programs, including the elimination of the offices of environmental prosecutor and public advocate.

During the tenure of Gov. Christie Whitman, the tide turned toward less aggressive enforcement, with the elimination of the state environmental prosecutor and deep staff cuts at the D.E.P.

As governor, Mr. Florio tightened New Jersey's environmental laws, curbing the ocean dumping that had dirtied the state's beaches and created an office of environmental prosecutor to go after polluters.

He also said he opposed raising auto-emissions standards to match those in New York and Massachusetts, and restoring the offices of the environmental prosecutor and the public advocate.

"The fact that there were violations of federal drilling regulations will strengthen the government's arguments for large penalties under the Clean Water Act," said David M. Uhlmann, director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program at the University of Michigan Law School and a former federal environmental prosecutor.

About 250 organizations and individuals, including non-government groups and environmental prosecutors, disagreed.

Mr. Berrospi, a bespectacled 45-year-old who carried antivenom in the jungle in case of snakebite, said officials in the Peruvian capital, Lima, had little idea of the obstacles faced by the country's approximately 80 environmental prosecutors.

The investigation, which comes as members of Congress and regulators consider tougher laws for dealing with persistent violators, involves some of the Justice Department's most senior environmental prosecutors in Washington working with assistant United States attorneys in districts around the country.

Carlos Pinto, who leads a team of environmental prosecutors for the state of Minas Gerais which is investigating the tragedy, said: "Negligence means the absence of the due care in the operation or monitoring of the dam".

Adopting the motto "Open for Business," Governor Whitman eliminated the environmental prosecutors Mr. Florio had introduced, and replaced a public advocate's office, which had at times sued the state on behalf of environmental groups, with a business ombudsman's office to guide businesses through the permitting process.