Climate Change
Trump’s EPA Claims Strong Enforcement. But the Data Tells a Different Story.
The EPA released its latest enforcement and compliance report and touted the agency’s crackdown on environmental crimes under the Trump administration, yet 75 percent of the criminal cases closed last fiscal year originated before the president took office.
For over a decade, Hino Motors Ltd. imported and sold more than 105,000 vehicles and engines with misleading or fabricated emissions data, until testing by the Environmental Protection Agency revealed the emissions-fraud scheme.
Trump’s EPA Claims Strong Enforcement. But the Data Tells a Different Story.