EPA Urged To Provide Data Justifying Proposed FY17-19 Enforcement Focus

摘要

EPA is facing calls from major industrial sectors to provide exhaustive data on environmental law violations and harms to justify the agency's proposed new fiscal year 2017-2019 enforcement priorities, with industries such as the chemical and oil sector saying EPA has failed to prove non-compliance to warrant focusing on them. Environmentalists, meanwhile, are using their comments on the agency's proposed national enforcement initiatives (NEI) to seek a strict focus on reducing water pollution from animal feedlots. "In light of the size and pollution potential of these facilities, along with the lack of comprehensive information on the industry, and its history of noncompliance, EPA must continue to prioritize animal waste in order to take the meaningful action that the American people deserve," say the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Yale Environmental Protection Clinic.