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Jovita Carranza, Administrator of the US Small Business Administration, testifies at a Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing on June

About a year ago, we wrote about a rise in enforcement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ("EPA") Vessel General Permit ("VGP"). In the words of one EPA attorney, that was "just the beginning" and we have continued to see more aggressive reviews of VGP compliance and penalty demands, particularly on the U.S. West Coast.