{"id":232576,"date":"2026-05-07T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-epa-demands-accountability-for-environmental-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:48:56","slug":"liberia-epa-demands-accountability-for-environmental-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-epa-demands-accountability-for-environmental-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: EPA Demands Accountability for Environmental Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reaffirmed Liberia&#8217;s commitment to responsible investment while cautioning against projects that harm the environment, jeopardize public health, exploit communities, or ignore legal requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The agency said environmental compliance is not a barrier to investment; rather, it is a condition for sustainable investment. It added that companies that comply with environmental regulations will find in the EPA a professional regulator, while those that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605070417.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reaffirmed Liberia&#8217;s commitment to responsible investment while cautioning against projects that harm the environment, jeopardize public health, exploit communities, or ignore legal requirements. The agency said environmental compliance is not a barrier to investment; rather, it is a condition for sustainable investment. It added that companies that comply with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[13948,258,256,14206,6979,14654,18937,4712,1107,257,254],"class_list":["post-232576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-damage","tag-demands","tag-environmental","tag-epa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}