Environmental Crime — FBI

The FBI works with its local, state, and federal partners to investigate criminal cases against individuals and businesses that have violated U.S. laws intended to protect the environment, human health, worker safety, and animal welfare. Environmental crime is a broad category of offenses that include timber and wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, illegal waste trade, pollution, and animal cruelty (such as dogfighting, cockfighting, and animal torture). Each of these offenses is often associa...

Environment and Natural Resources Division | Environmental Crimes Bulletin - July 2024

In This Issue: Cases by District/Circuit · Indictments · Guilty Pleas · Sentencings

Environmental Crime and the Law

Environmental Crime and the Law - Environmental crime refers to the breaking of environmental laws intended to safeguard the environment and human health. These regulations govern the quality of th...

Environmental Crime Directive - European Commission

The EU addresses serious environmental crimes through criminal law and supports national enforcement capacities.

Environment and Natural Resources Division | Environmental Crimes Bulletin - September 2024

In This Issue: Cases by District/Circuit · Decisions · Indictments · Guilty Pleas · Sentencings

Environment and Natural Resources Division | Environmental Crimes Bulletin - June 2024

In This Issue: Cases by District/Circuit · Indictments · Guilty Pleas · Sentencings

Environment and Natural Resources Division | Environmental Crimes Section | United States Department of J....

$4.37B : Criminal Fines Imposed (Since October 1998), 2.47 Years : Average Carceral Sentence Imposed (Since October 1998)

Corporate Crime | Corporate Crime Case Database | United States Department of Justice

U.S. v. BIT Mining, Ltd., formerly known as 500.com Ltd. ; United States v. Telefónica Venezolana, C.A. ; United States v. Gremex Shipping S.A. de C.V.

Environment and Natural Resources Division | Environmental Crime Victim Assistance | United States Depart....

What is an Environmental Crime? ; An environmental crime can be a negligent, a knowing, or a willful violation of a federal law that protects human health and the environment, such as the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. However, not all negligent, knowing, or willful behavior is an environmental crime. For more information about ENRD’s Environmental Crimes Section and the pollution cases that it prosecutes, see Prosecution of Federal Pollution Crimes. Environmental crimes can include, among other things, illegal dumping of hazardous was ...

‘Revolutionary’: EU Parliament votes to criminalise most serious cases of ecosystem destruction | Euron....

serious cases of environmental damage that are “comparable to ecocide”. Ecosystem... updated environmental crime directive. In a vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday, EU lawmakers...