The Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) is a Decentralized Administrative Body of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), founded on June 4, 1992. Its mission is to seek environmental justice through the application and effective compliance, efficient, expeditious, and transparent of the federal environmental legislation in force through the attention to the popular complaint and through actions of inspection, verification, surveillance, and use of voluntary instruments. In addition, it seeks to guarantee the protection of natural resources and natural capital, prioritizing the preventive approach over the corrective one, as well as actions of social participation.