The Trump EPA is weighing a possible shuttering of EPA's Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA) and returning civil enforcement to program offices, a move that sources say would significantly curb civil enforcement and be in line with Trump's calls to limit the agency's work - though its prospects are unclear. The plan would to some extent echo a move that Oklahoma Attorney General (AG) Scott Pruitt (R), President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next EPA administrator, made to close his office's Environmental Protection Unit in 2011. One environmentalist says that even the suggestion of shutting OECA "only confirms people's very justified opposition to" Pruitt, and calls on senators to query Pruitt on the plan ahead of his Senate floor confirmation vote.
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