Top EPA Official Eyes States' Help To Overhaul Agency Enforcement Goals

EPA's top political appointee in the enforcement office says states will play a major role in a looming potential overhaul of the agency's enforcement priorities in order to help identify and scrap goals that are outdated or already achieved, while floating possible new target areas for enforcement such as drinking water contamination. Patrick Traylor, the deputy assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), also told a legal conference that the agency has launched a workgroup with...