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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
2018-02-15 23:56:29| PortlandOnline
CPTED resources and guides for making your establishment safer
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Environmental crime is booming. Heres how to tackle it
2016-06-07 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Environmental crime, according to a new report released by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and INTERPOL, is booming - and were not talking about neglecting to separate your glass and plastics. These offenses - which include things like cutting down trees, overfishing, dumping toxic waste, and killing endangered species and selling their body parts - are actually much grislier than they may sound. Think Scarface, but with pangolins. INTERPOL estimates that the dollar value of the criminal...
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Environmental crime growing at 'alarming pace': police body
2016-06-04 02:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Criminal gangs are plundering the Earth's natural resources faster than previously thought, with the value of environmental crimes estimated to be as high as $258 billion annually, U.N. and police officials said on Saturday. The value of stolen natural resources - including fish, timber, gold and other minerals - has risen by 26 percent in the last year, according to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Interpol, the largest international police organization. "Environmental...
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Europol: Environmental crime is 'under-reported and under-investigated'
2013-11-21 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Environmental crimes are posing a major threat to the health of European citizens, damaging key industries, and undermining the EU's free trade regime, according to a new study from the Europol agency. The international policing body this week released a new Threat Assessment on Environmental Crime in the EU, which concluded that environmental crimes, such as trafficking in illegal waste and endangered species, are commonly under-reported and require a more co-ordinated response. The report...
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Transocean Agrees To Plead Guilty To Environmental Crime And Enter Civil Settlement To Resolve U.S. Clean Water Act Penalty Claims From Deepwater Horizon Incident
2013-01-04 08:28:28| oilandgasonline News Articles
Transocean Deepwater Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) and to pay a total of $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines and penalties, for its conduct in relation to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of Justice announced recently. The criminal information, and a proposed partial civil consent decree to resolve the U.S. government’s civil penalty claims against Transocean Deepwater Inc. and related entities were filed today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana.