{"id":5,"date":"2008-10-22T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-10-22T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:09:36","slug":"gao-report-hits-epa-enforcement-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"GAO Report hits EPA Enforcement Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10\/21), the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report evaluating the EPA&#8217;s enforcement performance over the past 10 years.\u00a0 The report found that the EPA&#8217;s mechanisms for reporting environmental violations overstates the value of penalties by reporting assessed penalties &#8211; not the final settlement amounts actually paid.\u00a0 However, the GAO found that EPA understates the value of penalties by not including amount settled to the states in their calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The report also assesses the EPA&#8217;s performance in assessing the amount of injunctive relief obtained and the amount of pollution reduced.\u00a0 The GAO found a number of inconsistencies in reporting these as well and suggested improvements for increased transparency.<\/p>\n<p>The report can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d081111r.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10\/21), the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report evaluating the EPA&#8217;s enforcement performance over the past 10 years.\u00a0 The report found that the EPA&#8217;s mechanisms for reporting environmental violations overstates the value of penalties by reporting assessed penalties &#8211; not the final settlement amounts actually paid.\u00a0 However, the GAO found that EPA understates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gao-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.endeavourehs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}