More Than 150 Groups Write Opposing EPA Coronavirus Enforcement Policy [1]
"A coalition of more than 150 groups wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to oppose a controversial memo in which the agency said it temporarily might not seek penalties against companies that don’t monitor their pollution.
The March 26 document says the agency temporarily “does not expect to seek penalties for violations of routine compliance monitoring, integrity testing, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, and reporting or certification obligations in situations where the EPA agrees that COVID-19 was the cause of the noncompliance.”
In a Tuesday letter to the EPA and congressional leaders, the 152 groups wrote that the EPA’s policy, which has no end date, “endangers health and safety precisely when public health is uniquely vulnerable.”"