This article is from the NY Times and it talks about a group of police officers whose job are to check up and enforce environmental laws. They go to stores that have complaints against them as well as just stopping into to various places. There are only about 20 people on this force but they are real police. They can ticket and arrest people who are in violation of the law.
They investigate things such as stores selling undersized fish, businesses that have oils and noxious substances leaking onto the streets and even stores that refuse to take peoples bottle deposits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/nyregion/26ecocops.html?_r=1&ref=science&pagewanted=print
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With all the health scares going on, I think it's about time measures are taken to secure the lives of Americans. Even this week there was a pistachio scare. Are we not safe eating food?
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