“Under Trump, EPA inspections fall to a 10-year low” reads the headline of an article published in the Washington Post on February 8, 2019. “Doing less with less at EPA: Environmental enforcement has plummeted in the era of Trump. Here’s what we can do about it” reads another, published by the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources on July 9, 2019. While the headlines link the decline in environmental enforcement by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Trump administration, this downward trend actually began as early as 2008, as shown in the following graph: Continue reading >