Europol: Environmental crime is 'under-reported and under-investigated'

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New Threat Assessment warns environmental crime is threatening health and wellbeing of EU citizens and businesses

Environmental crimes are posing a major threat to the health of European citizens, damaging key industries, and undermining the EU's free trade regime, according to a new study from the Europol agency....

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