The Justice Department’s top environment attorney issued two enforcement directives just before resigning this week, adding to a flurry of last-minute actions that have drawn criticism from outside the agency.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, who was assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, on Thursday released a 19-page memo and a seven-page supplement setting out the division’s enforcement priorities and principles for how agency lawyers pursue cases against alleged violators of federal statutes. The documents appeared on the agency’s website Friday.
- The memo, which replaces but largely tracks with a 2018 directive, says ENRD lawyers should “be wary ...