BOGOTA, Colombia — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The ...

BERLIN, Germany, February 16, 2025 (ENS) – With new funding, Germany’s Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are joining forces to stop criminals ...

An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the ...

Environmental crime is big business, often listed among the world’s top five criminal activities, just behind counterfeiting and drug crime. So it would be reasonable to think it is a big priority for ...

The Gambia Police Force, in collaboration with DLEAG, the Department of Forestry, the National Environment Agency (NEA), the Department of Fisheries, and the Gambia Armed Forces, has concluded a three ...

A bill before the Washington state Senate would make intentional water pollution, air pollution, and spilling of hazardous waste felonies. Under Washington state law, most environmental crimes are ...

The bill incorporates all environmental crimes into the catalog of offenses under Article 11 Bis for which legal entities may be held criminally liable. This would allow the imposition of sanctions ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) - After a roughly 25-year hiatus, Missouri has reconvened an Environmental Crimes Task Force to investigate and prosecute violations of state and federal ...

An environmental crimes task force to investigate and prosecute violations of state and federal environmental laws will be reconvened after close to a 25-year hiatus, the Missouri Department of ...

Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by ...