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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Senate on Thursday confirmed Jeffrey Hall, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the EPA’s enforcement division.

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 ...

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 ...