EPA's Fiscal Year 2013 Enforcement and Compliance Results offered a mixed bag in terms of actions taken, fines collected, and measurable environmental results. Two factors strongly influenced the Agency's 2013 enforcement performance-settlement of claims against Transocean for its liability in the Deepwa-ter Horizon spill, which resulted in total monetary penalties in 2013 that were more than five times those collected in 2012; and a decrease in EPA's budget, which resulted in a drop from 2012, as well as from each year from 2009 to 2011, in the total number of inspections conducted.
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