The Ministry of Environment has proceeded judicially against 35 companies accused of contaminating the environment. Sonia Vargas, assistant to the Attorney General of the Environment said that the department is studying another 160 cases. Vargas said that any company that contaminates the environment is subject to receive the full force of the law, regardless of whether its proprietor is powerful or not, or his ties to a political party, as reported in El Siglo newspaper. Vargas said that any company that contaminates the environment is subject to receive the full force of the law, regardless of whether its proprietor is powerful or not, or his ties to a political party, as reported in El Siglo newspaper. The Ministry recently closed down the maintenance shop of Urbaser Dominicana, a garbage collecting company. Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons urged environmental organizations of the civil society to help request from the state more funds for the Attorney General of the Environment Office.
