US EPA Charges Ahead 2. Courts Renamed 4. The US EPA is continuing to forge ahead, as Canada in general, and Ontario in particular, continue to fall behind. In March the EPA proudly released a series of reports on its successes in fiscal year 1998.
Enforcement is at near record highs.
266 new criminal cases and 411 civil cases were launched in 1998. In addition, EPA reports that its enforcement actions have lead to substantial pollution reductions. It now gets more than 40 million hits a month. This site contains a Center for Environmental Information and Statistics that gives an environmental profile for every part of the country by zipcode, the Toxic Release Inventory , nine compliance assistance centres for industry sectors, and much more. The Sector Facility Indexing Project publishes chemical releases and compliance histories for 653 major industrial facilities.