Environmental Protection Agency
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The EPA can't be everywhere all the time to enforce the nation's pollution laws. So it's developing what it calls Next Generation Compliance.
June 24, 2016 -
The House Appropriations Committee dealt a significant budget blow to the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday as lawmakers debated the agency's role in the water crisis surrounding Flint, Michigan.
June 15, 2016 -
Dr. Gayle Hagler, who works in the Environmental Protection Agency's national risk management research lab, developed a way to monitor and report dynamic air pollution at the neighborhood level. She joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the Village Green project she started.
June 08, 2016 -
Maybe it takes a 35-year-old to work 60 days in a row to get a new federal regulation established. That’s just one of several things EPA attorney Jessica Hall Zomer did to get industry to reduce heavy metals going into the nation’s waterways. She’s a finalist in the Service to America Medals program, and joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on her work.
June 03, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform committee marked up three bills aimed at agency rulemaking, project and program management, and federal construction procurement on May 17.
May 19, 2016 -
Federal leaders in cybersecurity are finding themselves in the position of trying to guess what the next big thing is going to be and how to prepare for it.
May 11, 2016 -
Cheryl Coleman had a passion for public service instilled in her growing up. It comes from her family, many of whom were all teachers. After 25 years working in state government, Coleman came to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she oversees the agency's efforts to reduce food waste nationwide.
April 29, 2016 -
Joel Scheraga never expected he'd one day become one of the EPA's leading voices on climate change. From planetary geo-physics, to economics,to academia, Scheraga took advice from his dad and decided to go down an unexpected path.
April 29, 2016 -
Stung by breaches and facing a rasher of policy mandates, federal agencies are using network upgrades as opportunities to improve cybersecurity. Lee Kelly, IT specialist and special assistant to the Environmental Protection Agency's senior information security officer, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the internet of things and big data are affecting EPA's network security.
April 28, 2016 -
Greg Godbout, who co-founded the 18F organization at GSA and was in the initial class of Presidential Innovation Fellows, is leaving government to join cBrain, a Danish software firm.
April 19, 2016 -
Robert Silvers becomes the first permanent assistant secretary for cyber policy at DHS in about a year.
April 11, 2016 -
Imagine living in a New Jersey neighborhood literally surrounded by highways, railways, a gigantic airport, factories and an incinerator. It seemed like everyone had asthma. Motivated citizens got together with the Environmental Protection Agency to help get a handle on the local air quality. Marie O'Shea, region two liaison to EPA's office of research and development, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the creation of an environmental toolbox and how it was used.
March 31, 2016 -
The Tonawanda Coke story helped move citizen science from the realm of mere data gathering to the power to change things. Pat Sheridan, the Environmental Protection Agency's region two citizen science coordinator, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the famous case the stinky factory and the people of Tonawanda, New York.
March 31, 2016 -
For citizens to be able to gather and report accurate data about air, they need reliable and accurate devices. Ron Williams, research chemist at the Environmental Protection Agency, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin he spends a lot of time evaluating devices and helping develop new ones to help the cause of citizen science
March 30, 2016 -
Deb Szaro, regional administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how citizens' observations need to become more accurate if they're to be used to affect regulations or public policy.
March 30, 2016