FY19 Budget Seen As 'Huge Blow' To EPA Enforcement Programs

The Trump administration has proposed steep cuts to EPA enforcement activities in its fiscal year 2019 budget request, a move that one former top official says will significantly undercut the agency's ability to enforce against violators. “This proposed budget would be a huge blow to civil and criminal enforcement at EPA,” former EPA enforcement chief Cynthia Giles tells Inside EPA , citing a range of proposed reductions including large enforcement cuts in EPA's core Environmental Programs and Management (EPM)...