The Trump administration is fulfilling promises to reverse Obama-era regulations by letting agency staffing decline, resulting in fewer people to do enforcement work
CHICAGO—President Trump’s promises to reverse the regulatory actions of the Obama administration have been stymied by court challenges, but his administration is achieving the goal another way: by not hiring people to do the work of enforcing rules that are still on the books.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, where staffing has fallen to Reagan-era levels, there were 10,600 inspections last fiscal year, down from nearly 21,300 at the height of President Obama’s second term, and less than 60% of the annual average since...
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