A watchdog with no teeth, and little sense for the kill. This is how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has often been described within environmental circles.  An often-cited example is how large-scale peat extraction carved up the midlands with apparently little to no regulation for decades.  It’s not an entirely fair assessment of the agency’s actions in this area. For years, it was hampered by a lack of enforcement resources, while several legal challenges to large-scale peat extraction were held up throughout the 2010s for various reasons. Critics argue the EPA could have acted sooner and it focused too much…

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