Sunday, June 7, 2026

Enforcement Advocates Call Budget a ‘Death Blow’

From E&E EnergyWire Deep cuts to environmental enforcement proposed by the Trump administration, experts say, would translate into fewer U.S. EPA inspectors poking around in the oil patch and less oversight of state regulation programs. The spending proposal rolled out yesterday contains a 24 percent cut to EPA’s enforcement office, called the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA). That