EPA WANTS PUBLIC INPUT ON NEW MEASURES OF ENFORCEMENT SUCCESS

EPA is planning to convene a broad public dialogue on environmental enforcement, in hopes of crafting new measures of success for the Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance that go beyond simply tallying enforcement actions and penalty dollars collected. The agency has been trying to redefine the goals of its enforcement program for years, and industry sources say the agency's decision to convene a public dialogue on the subject proves how difficult it is to wean the agency from traditional...