The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) has announced an Environmental Law Enforcement Training Workshop (“workshop”).
The workshop will be held from 8:30 until noon at the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office Regional Training Academy in Houma, Louisiana.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ Enforcement Division, Keep Louisiana Beautiful and LDEQ’s Criminal Investigation Division will be hosting the meeting.
The workshop is described as a:
. . .unique opportunity to hear from federal, state and local law enforcement regarding environmental crimes and environmental laws. Speakers will provide important information regarding the laws and actions regarding illegal dumping and burning, water pollution, littering and air pollution.
The public is free to attend the meeting but “law enforcement officials, justices of the peace, constables, state and city prosecutors, elected and appointed officials, environmental managers, code enforcement officers, public works directors and sanitarians from Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Charles, and St. Mary are encouraged to attend”.
Registration information can be found on the attached news release here.
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