Biden EPA Expected To Weigh Restoring Regions’ Enforcement Roles

A former Clinton EPA official says he expects the incoming Biden administration to consider restoring to the agency’s 10 regions the discretion they previously held through the Obama presidency to oversee a series of environmental enforcement actions, part of an effort to immediately bolster overall enforcement. For EPA that has meant enforcement was “shifted away from the regions and more toward the headquarters folks, and in some cases to the administrator,” Cliff Rothenstein, a former EPA deputy assistant administrator in...