The US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to narrow its enforcement focus in order to follow Trump administration priorities. I recently wrote about EPA’s May 2025 statement of new enforcement policies (I wrote about that memo HERE). Now, EPA has announced further changes, to align its activities with the President’s Executive Order “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” (EO 14294). The remainder of this note summarizes these changes.
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EPA narrows criminal enforcement to follow administration priorities
Posted by Jon Elliott on Fri, Sep 05, 2025
Tags: EPA, Environmental Policy, Environmental Compliance, EPA Regulations, EPA Standards, Trump Administration, Environmental Health and Safety, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA enforcement
Trump administration reworking the Environmental Protection Agency
Posted by Jon Elliott on Tue, Mar 04, 2025
Since returning to office in January, President Trump and his administration have promulgated many actions to reduce and revamp the US federal government, and additional actions focused on specific agencies. I wrote about general approaches to environmental regulation HERE. In addition, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been a target of specific directives, and new EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has already announced important policy and procedural changes at his agency. The remainder of this note summarizes EPA-specific changes ordered and/or instituted as of the end of February 2025.
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