Green Options » epa oversight http://greenoptions.com/tag/epa-oversight Posts tagged 'epa oversight' Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en EPA Clouds Its Enforcement Record Under Bush Administration http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/23/epa-clouds-its-enforcement-record-under-bush-administration/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/23/epa-clouds-its-enforcement-record-under-bush-administration/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:14:41 +0000 Tom Schueneman http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/23/epa-clouds-its-enforcement-record-under-bush-administration/ GAO report says EPA overstates enforcement of pollutersThe report was requested by Reps. John Dingell (D-MI), the Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak (D-MI), Chairman of its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation.

In a statement released by Dingell’s office, the GAO report was said to have found “shortcomings in the measures used by the Environmental Protection Agency to report the effectiveness of its civil and criminal enforcement programs to Congress and the public.”

The report says the EPA overstated it enforcement of environmental violations by including fines that may never be paid when tallying its penalties.

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