Critics Fear EPA Budget Will Spur State Race To The Bottom On Enforcement

Preliminary Trump administration plans to cut EPA enforcement spending on delegated programs risk a race to the bottom on environmental compliance that could hamper state as well as federal enforcement and create competitive disadvantage for companies that comply with environmental laws, a former agency official and other observers say. “People respond to where the winds are going,” says the former EPA enforcement official who expresses concern that cutting EPA's enforcement budget will cause individual companies to scale back their environmental...