U.S. EPA Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA) Criminal Enforcement Headlines Update

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Earlier this year, a Senate amendment called for disarming EPA’s criminal investigators.  But EPA’s agents face risks similar to those confronted by other law enforcement officers.  Read the article, Disarm the EPA? published by Bloomberg BNA, written by Mike Fisher, the legal division director in the agency’s Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics & Training.  Fisher describes how EPA’s law enforcement powers were conferred by Congress at the request of the Reagan administration, and why recent events underscore the wisdom of that bipartisan decision nearly 30 years ago.