Are drugmakers talking to us or Trump when they pledge new NC factories?
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Michelle Shaffer | January 23, 2026
Within a six-month span last year, the EPA said it cut the number of rodents at its newly formed Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions from 466 down to 41. In place of mammals, the agency promotes emerging New Approach Methods like computer modeling and in vitro diagnostics ...
Watchdog warns of ‘collapse’ in environmental enforcement
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Michelle Shaffer | January 22, 2026
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said in a report released Thursday there is a “collapse of environmental civil enforcement” across programs designed to clean up air pollution, dirty water and toxic waste. Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has rallied ...
Corporate Polluters Running Rampant Under Trump as EPA Enforcement ‘Dying a Quick Death’
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Michelle Shaffer |
In the report, The Collapse of Environmental Enforcement Under Trump’s EPA, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) noted Thursday that in the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration, 71 cases referred by the EPA were prosecuted by the US Department ...
REPORT | The Collapse of Environmental Enforcement Under Trump’s EPA
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Michelle Shaffer |
The Department of Justice settled just 15 of the cases referred by EPA for civil prosecution in the year since President Trump’s second inauguration ...
Under EPA’s Zeldin, Pollution Enforcement Dying a Quick Death
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Michelle Shaffer |
Department of Justice Civil Pollution Settlements Plummet to Record Lows ...
One Year After Trump’s Inauguration, the Damage to Environmental Policy Is Unprecedented
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Michelle Shaffer | January 20, 2026
Under Trump’s EPA, restrictions on dangerous chemicals are being loosened and risk assessments are being altered or delayed. Critics say the public will be paying the price with their health. “EPA no longer cares about human health,” Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public ...
