Documents Archive

Agency Policy Statements

• Acting AAG Bob Dreher Statement on EJ on the 20th Anniversary of Executive Order 12898
• Department of Justice Guidance Concerning Environmental Justice, December 2014 (PDF)
• Department of Justice Environmental Justice Strategy, December 2014 (PDF)

Administrative Staff Manuals and Instructions

• AAG Jeffrey Bossert Clark Memorandum on Additional Recommendations on Enforcement Discretion, January 2021 (PDF) (rescinded)
• AAG Jeffrey Bossert Clark Memorandum on Enforcement Principles and Priorities, January 2021 (PDF) (rescinded)
• AAG Jeffrey Bossert Clark Guidance Regarding Newly Promulgated Rule Restricting Third Party Payments, 50 C.F.R. 50.28, January 2021 (PDF) (rescinded)
• AAG Jeffrey Bossert Clark Memo on Equitable Mitigation in Civil Environmental Enforcement Cases, January 2021 (PDF) (rescinded)
• AAG Jeffrey Bossert Clark Memo on Civil Enforcement Discretion in Certain Clean Water Act Matters Involving Prior State Proceedings, July 2020 (PDF) (rescinded)
• AAG Jeffrey Bossert Clark Memo on Using Supplemental Environmental Projects (“SEPs”) in Civil Settlements with Private Defendants, March 2020 (PDF) (rescinded)
• AAG Jeffrey Bossert Clark Memo on Using Supplemental Environmental Projects (“SEPs”) in Settlements with State and Local Governments, August 2019 (PDF) (rescinded)
• Acting AAG Jeff Wood Memo on ENRD Enforcement Principles and Priorities, March 2018 (PDF) (rescinded)
• Settlement Payments to Third Parties in ENRD Cases (PDF) (rescinded)

Remarks and Speeches

• Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Brightbill Delivers Remarks at the 2020 Annual Pennsylvania Chamber Environmental Virtual Conference, October 2020 (PDF)
• Assistant Attorney General Clark Remarks at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, March 2020 (PDF)
• Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Brightbill Delivers Remarks at Forest Legality Week, October 2019 
• Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brightbill Remarks to Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies, August 2019
• Assistant Attorney General Clark Remarks at Beijing American Center, May 2019
• Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brightbill Statement Before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy, and Environment, September 2018
• Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden Delivers Remarks on the Enduring Nature of the Chevron Doctrine at the D.C. Bar’s Administrative Law and Agency Practice Committee’s Harold Leventhal Lecture, November 10, 2015 
• Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Delivers Remarks at Press Conference Announcing Settlement with BP to Resolve Civil Claims Over Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, October 5, 2015
• Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Delivers Remarks at The Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division Awards Ceremony, September 2, 2015
• Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden Delivers Remarks At Texas Environmental Superconference, August 6, 2015
• Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden Delivers Remarks to the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation Workshop, July 23, 2015
• Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden Delivers Remarks on the Sentencing of Duke Energy Subsidiaries for Clean Water Act Crimes, May 14, 2015
• Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden Delivers Remarks on Clean Water Act Settlement with Lehigh Southwest Cement Company and Hanson Permanente, Inc. April 29, 2015
• Poaching And Terrorism: A National Security Challenge Statement of Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the House Committee On Foreign Affairs Subcommittee On Terrorism, Nonproliferation, And Trade, April 22, 2015
• Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden Speaks at Marvin Gaye Park on the 45th Anniversary of Earth Day, April 22, 2015 
• Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden Delivers Remarks at the Kasane Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, March 25, 2015
• Statement of Robert G. Dreher Acting Assistant Attorney General for ENRD Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs U.S. House Of Representatives Hearing Entitled “International Wildlife Trafficking Threats To Conservation and National Security" February 26, 2014 (PDF)
• Remarks of Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno On the Settlement Agreements Resolving Tribal Trust Claims, April 11, 2012
• Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno's prepared remarks for the New York Bar Association, December 7, 2011
• Acting Assistant Attorney General John Cruden’s remarks on Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co., May 29, 2009

Frequently Requested Records and Other Publications

• Fact Sheet: Efforts to Combat Wildlife Trafficking at the Department of Justice, February 11, 2015 (PDF)
• Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking Implementation Plan, February 11, 2015 (PDF)
• ENRD Press Releases not Included in Main DOJ Press Webpage