--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | Environmental Protection Agency description: Environmental Protection Agency | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [EPA narrows criminal enforcement to follow administration priorities](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-narrows-criminal-enforcement-to-follow-administration-priorities) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Fri, Sep 05, 2025 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/pexels-kindelmedia-7773260.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-narrows-criminal-enforcement-to-follow-administration-priorities) 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](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-realigns-enforcement-policies-to-match-new-administration)). 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.  [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-narrows-criminal-enforcement-to-follow-administration-priorities) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-narrows-criminal-enforcement-to-follow-administration-priorities#comments-listing) Tags: [EPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa), [Environmental Policy](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-policy), [Environmental Compliance](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-compliance), [EPA Regulations](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa-regulations), [EPA Standards](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa-standards), [Trump Administration](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/trump-administration), [Environmental Health and Safety](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-health-and-safety), [Environmental Protection Agency](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-protection-agency), [EPA enforcement](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa-enforcement) ## [Trump administration reworking the Environmental Protection Agency](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-administration-reworking-the-environmental-protection-agency) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Mar 04, 2025 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/images/EPA_logo.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-administration-reworking-the-environmental-protection-agency) 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](https://blog.stpub.com/how-president-trump-and-the-republican-led-congress-democrats-make-environmental-regulatory-changes). 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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