Enforcement

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009583",
  "term": "Enforcement",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Activities to enforce compliance with Agency regulations through legal means, including criminal investigations and prosecutions.\n\n2. EPA, State, or local legal actions to obtain compliance with environmental laws, rules, regulations, or agreements and/or obtain penalties or criminal sanctions for violations. Under CERCLA, EPA will seek to require potentially responsible parties to clean up a Superfund site or pay for the cleanup.\n\n3. EPA, state, or local legal actions to obtain compliance with environmental laws, rules, regulations, or agreements and/or obtain penalties or criminal sanctions for violations. Enforcement procedures may vary, depending on the requirements of different environmental laws and related implementing regulations. Under CERCLA, for example, EPA will seek to require potentially responsible parties to clean up a Superfund site, or pay for the cleanup, whereas under the Clean Air Act the Agency may invoke sanctions against cities failing to meet ambient air quality standards that could prevent certain types of construction or federal funding. In other situations, if investigations by EPA and state agencies uncover willful violations, criminal trials and penalties are sought.\n\n4. EPA or natural resource trustee efforts, through legal action, if necessary, to compel potentially responsible parties to perform or pay for a Superfund site investigation, cleanup, and/or natural resource damage assessment or restoration activity.\n\n5. Activities and products of those activities to hold entities legally accountable for environmental violations.",
  "abbreviation": "Preliminary Injunction",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "EPA BRM",
    "Superfund Reforms Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Region 5 Cleanup Sites Glossary",
    "Web Taxonomy"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/enforcement/"
}