The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicated this week that it will steer its environmental enforcement officers away from energy companies. The EPA can pursue civil or criminal cases against ...

Environmental enforcement has hit historic lows, as the Trump administration has brought fewer lawsuits against companies for environmental violations in its first six months than any other ...

Agency staff and former officials are warning that new guidance could strengthen the polluter’s hand. “This will stop all meaningful cases in their tracks,” one staffer said. EPA has set out new ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Protecting the nation from polluters is a core function of the Environmental ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest — a region plagued by a legacy of pollution — to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel ...

Numerous Republican lawmakers at the federal level have called for laws strengthening criminal punishment for those who “dox” law enforcement—or reveal personally identifying information, like names ...

MONTPELIER – Enforcement by the state's environmental protection agency is anemic and penalties for polluters often are lower than they should be, according to an analysis of more than a decade's ...

ANDERSON COUNTY., S.C. (WSPA) – Environmental enforcement officers said recently at Lake Hartwell there’s been an issue with dock floats drifting into boating and swimming areas. Officials said this ...

Protecting the nation from polluters is a core function of the Environmental Protection Agency. But in the last few months, federal enforcement of major violations of environmental laws appears to ...