Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars

Joshua Ozymy is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Reno. His books include The U.S. Administrative State and the Protection of Environmental Crime Victims and Toxic Intent: Environmental Harm, Corporate Crime, and the Criminal Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws in the United States both coauthored with Melissa Jarrell Ozymy. Melissa Jarrell Ozymy is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her books include The U.S. Administrative State and the Protection of Environmental Crime Victims and Toxic Intent: Environmental Harm, Corporate Crime, and the Criminal Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws in the United States, both co-authored with Joshua Ozymy. She is also a coeditor of Palgrave Macmillan's Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology series.

1 Punishing Environmental Crimes 1 2 Water Pollution and the Evolution of Criminal Enforcement 14 3 Tapped Out: Prosecuting Drinking Water Crimes 28 4 Thar She Blows: Prosecuting Ship Pollution Crimes 46 5 Water Worries: The Clean Water Act and Related Crimes 65 6 Toward a Framework for Understanding Federal Water Pollution Crimes 81 7 Punishing in an Age of Hostility 106 Notes 121 Index 149

"This is, to my knowledge, the first book to offer a substantial, in-depth analysis of the use of the federal criminal environmental enforcement mechanisms available in the U.S. Relevant laws, policies, and history are reviewed in separate chapters that take up the enforcement of several major environmental regulations. The book provides an excellent overview of water pollution regulations and their enforcement at the federal level." - Michael J. Lynch, coeditor of The Handbook on Inequality and the Environment "Joshua and Melissa Ozymy have taken a substantial body of EPA prosecutorial data and organized it in a logical and easily understandable manner. Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars addresses an important topic: violations of laws designed to protect the foremost ingredient for life after air-water." - Raymond J. Michalowski, coeditor of State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government (Rutger)