The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is boasting of its first “climate change arrest.”
According to the New York Post:
The Biden administration boasted in an EPA report released Thursday about the unprecedented prosecution of a California man for “smuggling greenhouse gases” across the border from Mexico and selling them online.
Michael Hart, 58, was arrested in March and pleaded guilty in September to charges related to transporting refrigerants into the US to peddle on Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and other online vendors between June and December 2022.
Biden’s EPA touted the crackdown on Hart, the first-ever person charged for climate change-related bootlegging of refrigerants — namely, hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HFCs) — without the agency’s approval, in its report.
U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath vowed “it will not be the last” case of its kind.
The EPA attributed the arrest, prosecution, and conviction to “revitalized enforcement and compliance efforts,” which they fear will lose power when Trump returns.
Biden’s EPA carried out other enforcement actions, including imposing $1.7 billion in penalties, the highest amount since 2017. The agency also settled 1,851 civil cases and criminally charged another 121 defendants. The EPA says Hart’s conviction is just the beginning of more to come.
According to the Biden EPA, they carried out other enforcement actions that resulted in $1.7 billion in penalties, the highest amount since 2017. The agency also settled 1,851 civil cases and criminally charged another 121 defendants.
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