_{Friday, July 27, 2007}

From a story written by the Associated Press: It seems that the Bush Administration has reduced the effectiveness of the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to prosecute environmental crimes by reducing the number of criminal investigators.

Case in point: Congress prescribed in the U.S. Pollution Prosecution Act of 1990, that the EPA is required to employ a minimum of 200 criminal investigators. As of 2007 that number has dropped to 174. Not surprisingly, the number of investigations of large corporations as also decreased.

Wired News has more on this story.

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