EPA Secures Two Convictions for Conspiracy to Ship U.S. Hazardous Waste to Nigeria in First Hazardous Waste Sting

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Sunday, September 1, 1996

Author:

Bruce Zagaris

Volume:

12

Issue:

9

364-365

Abstract:

On July 19, 1996, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that in its first successful sting conducted in the U.S. involving hazardous waste, two Nigerian men who hold U.S. passports pleaded guilty to a scheme to illegally export hazardous waste from Georgia to Nigeria ... [more]