EPA Touts FY24 Enforcement Results, Making Case For Preserving OECA

EPA says its enforcement efforts this fiscal year have produced the strongest results since 2017, according to its FY24 annual report, making the case to preserve the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) in the face of calls from Trump allies to eliminate it and disperse its duties to program offices. OECA Dec. 5 issued the results , which show it concluded more than 1,850 civil cases, charged more than 120 criminal defendants and reduced more than 225 million...