Environmental Law

All about environmental crimes and enforcement, from pre-trial to trial strategy.

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Last news: March 18, 2008 13:37:37

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is general described as a strict liability crime (in laymen’s terms you do not need to prove that you intended to do the thing prohibited) and provides: "Unless and except as permitted by regulations made... -�[Read�more]

From the wire services, PGA tour golfer John Henry (“Tripp”) Isenhour III was charged today in Orlando with killing a protected migratory hawk with a golf shot. It occurred in December 2007 when Isenhour was filming a video segment for... -�[Read�more]

On February 19, 2008, Wang Hong, a Chinese national, was sentenced in Denver, Colorado, to 167 days in prison and three years of supervised release after. On January 3, 2008, Wang had pleaded guilty to federal smuggling charges in connection... -�[Read�more]

I had the great honor of representing a young woman before the grand jury on a matter in which her father and the family dairy farm were being investigated for environmental criminal activity. During these proceedings, the neighbor of the... -�[Read�more]

Below is a comment that I received on one of my blog posts. I am re-posting it here, uncut and uneditted (except for correcting a few typos), as a part of the blog to give it some of the space... -�[Read�more]

Contrary to, it seems, popular belief, the government prosecutes more than just Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships cases. On January 14, 2008, David S. Wong, a resident of Elk Grove Village, Ill., pleaded guilty in United States District Court... -�[Read�more]

On January 10, 2008, Mark Humphries, the former chief engineer of the M/V Tanabata, was sentenced to six months in prison for conspiracy to make illegal discharges of oily waste and lying to the Coast Guard. The M/V Tanabata is... -�[Read�more]

My apologies . . . work has goten in the way of blogging . . .. On January 3, 2007, the United States Department of Justice announced that Lyle Ravenkamp of Hugo, Colorado, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of... -�[Read�more]

The following is a guest post from Gary Winston, Assistant State Attorney, Office of the State Attorney, Environmental Crime Unit, Miami, Florida. In 1993, at the urging of an aggressive, creative prosecutor, the (then) Dade County State Attorney’s Office created... -�[Read�more]

On November 29, 2007, British Petroleum Exploration (Alaska), Inc., (“BPXA”) pleaded guilty to a one count information alleging a criminal violation of the Clean Water Act for spilling 200,000 gallons of crude oil from a pipeline onto the tundra and... -�[Read�more]

On November 15, 2007, I was notified that this blog was selected by LexisNexis to be listed in the “Top Blogs” section of its recently released LexisNexis Environmental Law and Climate Change Center. You can get to the web site... -�[Read�more]

Sorry for the length of time between posts - real life got in the way - I have been traveling and been in trial. Now I am back!!! How is it that a person sitting in an office in New... -�[Read�more]

On October 16, 2007, Mark Humphries, the chief engineer of the M/V Tanabata, was found guilty of: 1) conspiring to violate four different laws (making illegal discharges of oil-contaminated bilge waste, in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from... -�[Read�more]

On October 9, 2007, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division, Rowan Companies, Inc. pled guilty to three felonies under the Clean Water Act in connection with the routine discharge of pollutants and... -�[Read�more]

Criminal prosecutions are down. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/5CE8C09824FE8F87862573670006FA06?OpenDocument This story ran yesterday in a lot of newspapers. Now, the USEPA and the DOJ claim that they are getting more "quality" prosecutions. But the questions remain. The old adage is true - actions speak... -�[Read�more]