state environmental enforcement

What Happened to EPA Enforcement?

Enforcement efforts peaked long ago and have been in long-term decline. Trump will accelerate that.

There has been a long-term decline in EPA enforcement since the late Bush Administration. The numbers raise three questions: What’s behind the long-term trend? Why has pollution generally continued to decline despite weaker enforcement? And how bad will things be under Trump II? As to the third question, Trump has already made it clear that we can expect environmental enforcement to crash and burn in the next four years.

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