Shutdown Means E.P.A. Pollution Inspectors Aren’t on the Job - NYTimes

The two-week-old shutdown has halted one of the federal government’s most important public health activities, the inspections of chemical factories, power plants, oil refineries, water treatment plants, and thousands of other industrial sites for pollution violations.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/climate/epa-pollution-inspection-shutdown.html