The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance issued a Dec. 5, 2025, memorandum that establishes a "compliance first" focus for all EPA enforcement and ...

Recent developments at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), coupled with longstanding federal and Ohio environmental audit policies, underscore a clear message: companies that proactively identify, ...

Agency staff and former officials are warning that new guidance could strengthen the polluter’s hand. “This will stop all meaningful cases in their tracks,” one staffer said. EPA has set out new ...

Reports from separate environmental advocacy groups show that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement has decreased since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, and one ...

The Trump administration is rapidly reshaping the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken enforcement against polluters and slash regulation of industry, according to data reviewed by The Washington ...

“In many cases, without enforcement action, those violations go unaddressed,” said Jen Duggan, the Environmental Integrity Project's executive director. “And that means that communities are exposed to ...

Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, a far bigger drop than in the same period of his first term, according to a new ...