For decades, environmental crime in Sri Lanka has been cheap.

Polluters paid fines that barely registered on balance sheets, violations dragged through courts and the real costs — poisoned waterways, degraded land, public health damage — were quietly transferred to the public. That arithmetic, long tolerated, is now being challenged by a proposed overhaul of the country’s environmental penalty regime.

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