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Enforcement

The Department of Ecology seeks to assure compliance with environmental laws. Ecology's enforcement policy stresses the importance of providing the regulated community an opportunity to voluntarily comply with environmental laws. When voluntary compliance is not achieved, Ecology pursues enforcement.

For more information about enforcement actions to protect air, land and water, see Ecology's 2007 Enforcement Report. This report contains an overview of Ecology's enforcement program and trends in notices, orders and penalties from 1985 through 2007.

Summaries of Ecology's enforcement actions for selected time periods are provided below.  (Note: Local air authorities, county health departments and other governmental bodies also have environmental enforcement authority.)

Penalty Summaries

2009
January-March | April-June | July-September

2008
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

2007
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

2006
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

2005
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

2004
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

2003
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

2002
January-March | April-June | July-December

2001
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

2000
January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December

1999
April-June | July-September | October-December