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These below-average numbers of enforcement actions align with a 19 percent decline in Florida’s environmental agency staff—the largest decrease in number of any state—from 2010 to 2025, according to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project. During the same period, the state ...

Like the Environmental Integrity Project, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) analyzed court records and found a “collapse” of environmental enforcement under Trump II, with a sharp drop in civil cases settled by the DOJ that were referred by the EPA. “The ...

Close to 150 million people live within 3 miles of these facilities. Historically underserved and overburdened populations, including people who identify as Black and Latino, are at greatest risk of exposure to an accidental release. Many refineries were built before 1985, the analysis ...

But Interior staff reorganized into Burgum’s office who later left say they encountered a hostile, inefficient work culture designed to push people out. Russell Vought, the powerful director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, said in a private speech between Trump’s two ...

“This is a release that is propaganda,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior enforcement attorney at the EPA. “It doesn’t reflect reality in a number of ways.” One example: The EPA has stopped enforcing ...