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OUR STRATEGIC NATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT IS MISSING

Agencies Play Hot Potato on Responsibility for Required All-Hazard Analysis

PRUITT REFUSES TO REVEAL HIS CLIMATE SCIENCE

His Lawyers Call Lawsuit for Studies Discounting Human Role “a Trap”

EXXON VALDEZ DAMAGES SUIT DRAGS INTO 2015 AND PERHAPS BEYOND

Judge Frustrated That Long Overdue Restoration Plan Still Not Near Completion

ON EXXON VALDEZ 25TH ANNIVERSARY MUCH REMAINS UNRESOLVED

Alaska Legislature Takes Up Measure Urging Action on Long-Stalled Damages Claim

OLD DEAD FISH SPARK SPAT BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND OIL GIANT

Pacific Herring Tissue Samples from 2005 Figure in Ongoing Exxon Valdez Litigation

EXXON VALDEZ RECOVERY REMAINS STUCK IN LIMBO

Federal Judge “Dismayed” over Slow Pace of Promised Preliminary Work

EXXON VALDEZ OIL LINGERING IN ENVIRONMENT, FEDS SAY

ExxonMobil Seeks to Block Collection of $100 Million Restoration Fund

FEDERAL PRISON COMPUTER RECYCLING CREATED TOXIC NIGHTMARE

Inspector General: Staff & Inmates “Needlessly” Exposed to Excessive Heavy Metals

EXXON VALDEZ DAMAGES REMAIN UNSETTLED AFTER 21 YEARS

Inability to Document Natural Resource Damages May Bedevil BP Spill Payments

ATTACKS ON FEDERAL FOREST AND PARK STAFF REACH ALL TIME HIGH

Incidents More than Triple in National Parks, Forest Violence Up a Third in 2009



White Papers Uneven JusticeEnvironmental Prosecutions in the Clinton Administration and U.S. Attorney Environmental Report Card (December 1998)
According to an analysis of federal records, prosecution of environmental crimes has sharply fallen during the Clinton Administration. Comparing statistics from a three year period in the Bush Administration (1989-91) with a similar period in the Clinton Administration (1994-96; the last years for which data is available), this review shows dramatic declines in criminal referrals, prosecutions and convictions. more >>