EPA to limit enforcement of environmental laws during coronavirus emergency

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The Environmental Protection Agency will put companies and specific facilities in charge of monitoring their own compliance with environmental laws during the novel coronavirus emergency, according to officials.

This move has led critics to accuse the agency of backing off its role to prevent uncontrolled pollution or other violations.

"We were hearing from a number of facilities around the country where they simply don't have the necessary personnel in their facilities to make those reports in a timely basis," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told reporters Thursday afternoon.

Environmental groups accused the agency of giving polluters a free pass because of the pandemic, saying that without federal oversight companies could skimp on recording information on releases of air or water pollution.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/epa-limit-enforcement-environmental-laws-coronavirus-emergency-giving/story?id=69837624

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1. And they had to go out and announce it? They should have kept quiet about this so those that we...

don't want illegally dumping crap etc. don't know about the relaxed enforcement. These people are dumb as a rock.