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  2. Environmental crime - Wikipedia

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    A small organization, CSXT Police Environment Crimes Unit, has been started to stop railroad dumping specifically. Ever since the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Criminal Enforcement was founded in 1982, there has been a steady increase in prosecuted environmental crimes. [13]

  3. Category:Environmental crime - Wikipedia

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  4. Maritime environmental crime - Wikipedia

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    Environmental maritime crime constitutes one of the key components of the broader domain of blue crime, and it describes and includes activities that detrimentally impact the marine environment. [1] Its effects have had extremely deleterious impacts on marine life, both in terms of affecting marine ecosystems and the life quality of coastal ...

  5. List of environmental killings - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, the Environmental Justice Foundation reported that in at least 11 countries people had been murdered for opposing shrimp farming and its associated environmental impacts. [ 4 ] According to Global Witness , the number of environmental killings worldwide reached 147 in 2012, and the total number of such murders between 2002 and 2013 ...

  6. Green criminology - Wikipedia

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    The term "green criminology" was introduced by Michael J. Lynch in 1990, and expanded upon in Nancy Frank and Michael J. Lynch's 1992 book, Corporate Crime, Corporate Violence, [2] which examined the political economic origins of green crime and injustice, and the scope of environmental law.

  7. Eco-terrorism - Wikipedia

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    Eco-terrorism is an act of violence which is committed in support of environmental causes, against people or property. [1] [2]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines eco-terrorism as "...the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or their property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental-political ...

  8. List of environmental conflicts - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Justice Atlas documented 3,100 environmental conflicts worldwide as of April 2020 and emphasised that many more conflicts remained undocumented. [1] Gas flaring and oil spills in the Niger Delta contribute to local conflict. Climate activists blockade British Airports Authority's headquarters for day of action.

  9. Ecocide - Wikipedia

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    The conference recognized that environmental crime is an important new form of transnational organized crime in need a greater response. One of the outcomes was that UNEP and UNICRI head up a study into the definition of environmental crime and give due consideration to making ecocide an international crime. [153]