How Trump’s EPA is Letting Environmental Criminals Off the Hook, in One Chart

From: Vox

“A January report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an advocacy group for public sector workers who deal with environmental issues, shows that the number of criminal cases the EPA referred to the Justice Department under President Trump is at the lowest level in 30 years. It follows a 2018 report from the Environmental Integrity Project, which found a massive drop in the amount of fines Trump’s EPA collected from polluters relative to the past three administrations during the same time frame.”

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