{"id":755,"date":"2009-04-06T11:25:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=755"},"modified":"2009-04-06T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:25:05","slug":"the-epas-most-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/04\/06\/the-epas-most-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"The EPA&#8217;s Most Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/fugitives\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/fugitives\/images\/feature\/pluimers.gif\" alt=\"Frerik Pluimers, a former CEO, conspired to bribe various Panamanian officials with funds from United States bank accounts, dealing with independent petrochemical laboratory testing.\" width=\"180\" height=\"216\" class=\"img-fluid\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frerik Pluimers, a former CEO, 'conspired to bribe various Panamanian officials with funds from United States bank accounts, dealing with independent petrochemical laboratory testing.'<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a leaf out of the FBI\u2019s book in their fight against \u201cenvironmental crimes.\u201d EPA has established a Most Wanted list, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/fugitives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including mug shots<\/a>, of offenders who have been charged with violating environmental laws or regulations. The list was established to put a spotlight on environmental crime and to signal that the agency is taking these crimes very seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some examples of offenses are:<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>\u2013<\/strong> Selling hundreds of asbestos inspection licenses to untrained workers<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>\u2013<\/strong> Smuggling ozone-destroying coolants<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>\u2013<\/strong> Building a secret pipeline to funnel pollutants into a tributary of the Mississippi River<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">EPA has 180 armed agents patrolling the country for these and other criminals, according to Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/06\/us\/06wanted.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times story<\/a>.\u00a0 There are currently 21 fugitives on the list. Check out their mug shots on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/fugitives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EPA Fugitives page<\/a> and, if you spot one,\u00a0 inform your local police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">But, however egregious their crimes, the page urges that you \u201cdo not attempt to apprehend any of these individuals.\u201d<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Good advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a leaf out of the FBI\u2019s book in their fight against \u201cenvironmental crimes.\u201d EPA has established a Most Wanted list, including mug shots, of offenders who have been charged with violating environmental laws or regulations. The list was established to put a spotlight on environmental crime and to signal that the agency is taking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[200,93,201],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology-in-policy","category-ecology-and-society","tag-environmental-crime","tag-epa","tag-toxicology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}