EPA Enforcement Records

The Environmental Integrity Project is closely tracking Trump Administration actions that undermine public health and environmental protections for U.S. communities, including rolling back environmental regulations to benefit polluting industries and failing to hold companies accountable when they release illegal pollution into our waterways and the air we breathe. A decline in EPA enforcement will make it easier for polluters to violate federal environmental laws without consequences. Environmental enforcement may be the last line of defense for frontline communities who are fighting for clean air and water.

The Trump EPA significantly revised its national enforcement priorities on March 12, 2025, making it difficult for EPA staff to take enforcement action to address violations at industrial operations (1) associated with energy production or fossil fuel power generation or (2) located in historically marginalized communities who are disproportionately impacted by pollution.

To better understand what’s at stake when EPA fails to hold polluters accountable, EIP submitted several large Freedom of Information Act requests to EPA.

We requested:

• Inspection reports that note deficiencies (conducted between January 2021 to March 2025);
• Notices of Violation and requests for information related to potential violations (sent between January 2023 to January 2025);
• and final resolutions to enforcement actions, like consent decrees and settlement agreements, dated after January 20, 2025.

EPA is providing these records to us on a rolling basis. The records we have received to date are available through the map below, along with an index that describes each document.