You don’t need as much enforcement when you are bankrupting entire industries, like the coal industry. When production is down, enforcement is going to likely be down to.
AP are just a wing of the DNC. Just the Pravda of our radical communist Muslim Kenyan gay president.
Yes, that's part of it. Also significant is the fact that most of the big cleanup locations (the "Superfund" sites, such as Love Canal, Marine Shale Processors, Hudson Petroleum Refinery, etc.) - are no longer active. Some of that land is being "returned to commerce", as I understand it.
So, now that the industry that manages to survive the EPA's onslaught is "clean", what's the agency to do? Why, invent new "threats", of course. Gotta do that in order to justify its continued existence. Cue the "...save our phony-baloney jobs..." clip from Blazing saddles.