EPA Needs to Do Better Job of Monitoring Air Enforcement Settlements, OIG Finds

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency needs to take several steps to improve its monitoring of consent decrees under the Clean Air Act to ensure that industrial facilities are complying with the terms of those settlements, the agency's inspector general has found. In a report issued Sept. 10, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) said a review of consent decrees covering coal-fired power plants and other industrial sectors revealed that the EPA did not have "sufficient management controls" in place to ensure that facilities were in compliance. The failure to adequately monitor consent decrees increases the risk that potential violations go undetected, the OIG said.