{"id":1981,"date":"2016-07-07T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2019-12-24T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:17:19","slug":"department-justice-hitches-environmental-crimes-worker-safety-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/department-justice-hitches-environmental-crimes-worker-safety-violations.html","title":{"rendered":"Department of Justice Hitches Environmental Crimes to Worker Safety Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2015<\/strong> saw two striking\u00a0pronouncements on criminal prosecutions and civil actions\u00a0against individuals. The first, referred to unofficially\u00a0as the \u201cYates Memo,\u201d came in the form of new guidance\u00a0to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and all United States\u00a0attorneys on individual accountability. The second came\u00a0in the form of a memorandum of understanding (MOU)\u00a0between the DOJ and the Department of Labor (DOL).\u00a0The MOU was designed to bolster the environmental side\u00a0of worker safety violations, by scrutinizing environmental\u00a0records.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with two new tools, prosecutors are now\u00a0equipped to examine violations involving worker safety\u00a0using criminal environmental statutes. Thus, if the government\u00a0accuses a company of worker safety violations,\u00a0the company may expect a close analysis of their environmental\u00a0record. The MOU itself is the next logical step\u00a0of the DOJ\u2019s strengthening its enforcement cases involving\u00a0worker safety violations under environmental statutes.\u00a0With the new understanding between the DOJ and the\u00a0DOL, civil division attorneys are to share information\u00a0with criminal division attorneys. Moreover, the MOU requires\u00a0that criminal division attorneys explain to a supervisor\u00a0why they did not seek charges against an individual\u00a0company wrongdoer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What circumstances brought about the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>new push?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/department-justice-hitches-environmental-crimes-worker-safety-violations.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading Department of Justice Hitches Environmental Crimes to Worker Safety Violations\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2015 saw two striking\u00a0pronouncements on criminal prosecutions and civil actions\u00a0against individuals. The first, referred to unofficially\u00a0as the \u201cYates Memo,\u201d came in the form of new guidance\u00a0to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and all United States\u00a0attorneys on individual accountability. The second came\u00a0in the form of a memorandum of understanding (MOU)\u00a0between the DOJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247,89],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights","category-lindabury"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Department of Justice Hitches Environmental Crimes to Worker Safety Violations &#8212; July 7, 2016 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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