TRAC: Water Pollution Convictions Down Under Obama

TRAC – Convictions for 2010 Lead Charge: 33 USC 1319 – Water Pollution – Enforcement

  • “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first ten months of FY 2010 the government reported 23 new convictions for these matters. Those cases had a lead charge of “33 USC 1319 – Water Pollution – Enforcement”. If this activity continues at the same pace, the annual total of convictions will be 28 for this fiscal year. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this estimate is down 12.5% over the past fiscal year when the number of convictions totaled 32. The comparisons of the number of defendants convicted for offenses are based on case-by-case information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. Compared to five years ago when there were 58, the estimate of FY 2010 convictions of this type is down 51.7 percent. Convictions over the past year are lower than they were ten years ago. Overall, the data show that convictions of this type are down 50 percent from the level of 56 reported in 2000 but up 86.7 percent from the level of 15 reported in 1990.”
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