About time. It's not as if this is about you dropping your old couch in the park, or throwing your old batteries in the trash can...this is about factories using rivers to dispose of their chemical waste without permission and stuff like that.
No it's not.
Those all have been universally serious crimes for generations, for the simple reason that they have a negative effect on people.
This is an entirely different thing.
I see on the horizon jail time for skepticism over human-caused global warming, like that fruitcake Weather Channel idiot suggested, and also jail time for "hate speech" agains bugs and bunnies, insect and plants...