Document: EPA agrees with GAO to work more with states on enforcement

EPA is agreeing with several recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to improve its coordination with states and the agency’s 10 regional offices to help meet national initiatives to enforce and achieve compliance with environmental laws. While the agency’s enforcement office during the Trump administration emphasized a focus on compliance and working more closely with states, a GAO report released Dec. 10 says that as of this September, “EPA had not finalized implementation guidance for EPA regional offices and...