Quote-Unquote: EPA’s ‘most significant change’ in enforcement policy

Plus: PFAS, NEPA, and new power-plant rules. EPA’s new policy ‘transforms the entire EPA enforcement docket’ : “[EPA] . . . announced a new Strategic Civil-Criminal Enforcement Policy that is perhaps the most significant change in environmental enforcement since the passage of the basic environmental laws decades ago. At bottom, the new policy addresses the long-standing concern that the decision to enforce a matter civilly or criminally ultimately depended on whose ‘desk’ it landed on. The new policy, effective immediately,...