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06/19/2026

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/mv-dali-chief-engineer-enters-deferred-prosecution-agreement-key-bridge-crash-related

06/06/2026

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/company-ordered-pay-500000-criminal-fine-violating-asbestos-regulations-michigan

Applied Partners LLC was sentenced today to pay a $500,000 fine and complete a two-year term of probation for the company’s illegal handling of regulated asbestos containing material (RACM) at a site in Saginaw, Michigan.

06/04/2026

https://www.justice.gov/enrd/blog/environmental-crimes-bulletin-april-2026

This issue of the Bulletin includes cases involving dog fighting, timber trafficking, wastewater discharges, hazardous waste storage, parrot smuggling, and more.

06/03/2026

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/three-companies-pay-more-4-million-settle-lawsuit-stemming-gender-reveal-caused-inland

An Ohio-based smoke bomb designer and importer, and two other companies have agreed to pay more than $4 million to the United States for costs and damages from the El Dorado Fire of 2020, which was ignited as part of a gender reveal photo shoot, burned nearly 23,000 acres, and caused a firefighter.....

06/02/2026

https://www.justice.gov/opa/blog/justice-department-leads-counter-timber-trafficking-workshop-gabon

In Gabon last month, the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and the Gabon Ministry of Water and Forests, the Sea and the Environment, led a five-day multilateral workshop that included Cameroon and Vietnam to combat i...

05/29/2026

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fort-pierce-man-sentenced-18-months-prison-biofuel-fraud-conspiracy

The owner of a company that produced and sold renewable fuel and fuel credits was sentenced today to serve 18 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release, and to pay $2,857,029 in restitution and a $150,000 fine, for his role in a scheme that generated over $7 million in fraudulent....

05/28/2026

https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/troutdale-woman-sentenced-federal-prison-discharging-500000-gallons-pollutants-hillsboro

A Troutdale woman was sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act by receiving and discharging 500,000 gallons of industrial wastewater contaminated with hydrofluoric acid and toxic metals to the sanitary sewer without approval.

05/19/2026

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/man-and-woman-charged-smuggling-protected-parrots-and-parakeets-spare-tire-cage

SAN DIEGO – Sydney Johnson of Santee and Brandon Marion of Temecula appeared in federal court today to face charges that they illegally imported 27 protected parrots and parakeets in a modified spare tire in the trunk of a car. Both species of birds - including 11 orange-fronted parakeets (Eupsitt...

05/19/2026

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-managers-waste-pre-treatment-facility-plead-guilty-illegally-discharging-waste

A former plant manager and a supervisor of a Nashville, Tennessee, facility pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to conspiring to bypass waste pretreatment systems and discharge the waste into the Nashville sewer system, and to tampering with a monitoring device...