Greenwire: U.S. EPA will achieve its goal of bulking up its criminal division by the end of next week, the agency’s top cop said yesterday, one week after an environmental watchdog group released a report claiming that EPA’s team of agents and docket of criminal cases had both shrunk under the Obama administration. As part of a budget request submitted earlier this year, EPA said it planned to keep more than 200 criminal investigators on staff. But a Freedom of Information Act inquiry by Public …

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