Environmental Protection Agency
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This report highlights $474 billion in wasteful and inefficient spending.
November 27, 2017 -
October was the unofficial start of the federal buyout system. The catch, this year, is that there are no buyouts, or at least very few.
November 01, 2017 -
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer wants the Office of Personnel Management to describe how it will manage and oversee agency buyouts and early retirement offers.
September 22, 2017 -
Some civilian agencies were spared from deep cuts included in the president's budget request, but the IRS and EPA would see significant reductions.
September 14, 2017 -
EPA advocates say recovery efforts for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are proof of how important it is to have a fully-funded public health agency.
September 13, 2017 -
The buyouts the Trump administration offered to many EPA employees are starting to take effect.
September 07, 2017 -
The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general is looking into EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's many trips back and forth to Oklahoma.
August 29, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two senators are questioning how the Trump administration hired non-confirmed political appointees at the EPA and the Council on Environmental Quality.
August 21, 2017 -
The EPA's watchdog says it missed the mark on some of the goals of an early retirement and buyout campaign.
August 15, 2017 -
Roopangi Kadakia, the Veterans Affairs Department’s chief cloud strategist, is leaving for the private sector.
August 14, 2017 -
Scott Pruitt, the new EPA administrator, has ordered the agency to implement 11 recommendations to expedite polluted lands cleanup.
August 07, 2017 -
Roughly one in three federal workers is eligible to retire today, but many are waiting for their agencies to offer buyouts, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
August 03, 2017 -
The Environmental Protection Agency's alumni association about to get larger by several hundred as the agency prepares to buy out or lay off people. Chuck Elkins, executive director of the EPA Alumni Association, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how his group is trying to help out the soon-to-be-departed.
July 31, 2017 -
Modern life would be impossible without chemicals — yet many chemicals are dangerous. The EPA has a longstanding program for evaluating those risks and providing regulations. Dr. Jeffery Morris, director of the office of pollution prevention and toxics at the EPA, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss a 2015 law — the Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century — that imposes a new risk management approach to chemical safety for the agency.
July 27, 2017 -
Working for the government was once a lifetime deal, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says those days may be gone.
July 26, 2017