The Environmental Protection Agency says it concluded more than 1,800 civil cases this year, a 3% increase over 2023, and charged 120 criminal defendants, a 17.6% increase over the previous year.
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Enforcement efforts included first-ever criminal charges for a California man accused of smuggling climate-damaging air coolants into the United States. The case involved hydrofluorocarbons, a highly potent greenhouse gas also known as HFCs, a gas once commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.— and agreed to recall 600,000 Ram trucks — as part of a settlement with federal and California authorities.
“We’ve revitalized an enforcement program that suffered more than a decade of budget cuts and and was badly hampered by the pandemic,'' he said. The agency also weathered a series of actions by former President Donald Trump’s administration
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