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EHS Trend 4: Significant Rise in Enforcement Activities

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Argentina:
Proposal to add
environmental
offenses to
Argentine criminal
code.
• Could face 25
years of
imprisonment
• Fines as high as
500,000
Argentinian
Pesos

Chile:
Draft law proposes
establishing
criminal liability for
companies
• Companies
would be
criminally liable
for work
accidents that
occurred as a
consequence of
the employer’s
negligence
• Penalties would
include
dissolution of the
company and
cancellation of its
legal status or a
fine

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Mexico:
Proposal to
impose higher
fines for
breaching
environmental
legislation

Mexico:

United States:

• Fines imposed
on corporations
would range
between
600,000 to
8,000,000
Mexican Pesos,
daily minimum
general wage.

Operators of
potentially
polluting activities
to have
environmental
insurance
• Insurance
coverage would
be based on the
costs for
environmental
remediation
activities
• Operators would
be subject to
stricter
enforcement
provisions
• Could be held
liable for
environmental
damage

EPA releases
enforcement data
from 2014,
indicating trend of
increased prison
time for most
severe violations

Enhesa's 2015 Global EHS Regulatory
Forecast

• EPA’s criminal
program
generated $63
million in fines
and restitution,
$16 million in
court-ordered
environmental
projects, and a
combined total of
155 years of
incarceration for
guilty
defendants.

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