EPA Enforcement Budget Even Lower Than Under Trump, Group Says

Adjusting for inflation, the budget for the EPA’s main enforcement and compliance programs hit an 11-year low in fiscal 2022, sinking below levels set during the Trump era, according to a new independent analysis.

Those cuts are a key reason the Environmental Protection Agency’s performance in cracking down on violators is at its weakest in decades across various measures, according to the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, an environmental watchdog group.

“You’ve heard a lot that they’re working on enforcement, they’re going to beef up enforcement, they’re going to return the EPA ...