The 2006 Florida Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility report on Florida Department of Environmental Protection enforcement actions is now available.

The Report is available at http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=848. The final conclusion of the report:

"In sum, the Department has clearly become an agency that is most interested in assessing civil penalties with minimal additional oversight being given. It is a pay-to-pollute philosophy that enables polluters to reasonably predict the financial consequences of behavior that violates Florida’s environmental laws. This makes business plans easier to draft. It does nothing of significance to protect Florida’s fragile environment."