Federal Enforcement of Polluters Has Dropped Under Trump (3)

Federal enforcement of polluters slumped in the first year of the second Trump administration, a new analysis of government data by a nonprofit watchdog group has found.

Compared with the first year of previous administrations, including Trump’s first term, the current administration has taken fewer polluters to court and settled fewer existing cases, according to a review of federal court records by the Environmental Integrity Project.

The pullback on environmental enforcement comes as the Environmental Protection Agency has pursued an aggressive deregulatory agenda, launching the rollback of multiple rules for air, climate and water pollution controls. In the past year, the agency has also lost ...