Failure to Notify: Exploring Charging and Sentencing Patterns in Superfund Criminal Prosecutions
September 2020
Citation: 50 ELR 10723
Issue: 9
This Comment explores charging and sentencing patterns in federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) prosecutions, and charts the evolution of how CERCLA has been used by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigators and federal prosecutors to pursue criminal sanctions, the overarching themes of those investigations and prosecutions over the past 37 years, and the totality of those sanctions.