Environmental Protection Agency
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A Region 5 email reads like CYA, not someone with the power to do something, jumping in and helping with the real problem.
January 22, 2016 -
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA to set standards for drinking water. It's safe to say, what was coming out of the taps in Flint doesn't qualify.
January 18, 2016 -
Data has become the life blood of decision-making at many federal agencies. Greg Godbout is one of the leaders in federal data adoption. Now the chief technology officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, he's helping decision-making at both the federal and state levels. Federal Drive with Tom Temin interviewed Godbout and the agency's chief data scientist, Robin Thottungal, for an update on data initiatives. Godbout explained how data innovation can keep federal executives from making bad decisions on what they don't really know.
December 01, 2015 -
Even for long-serving federal managers, moving from one federal department to another can produce some surprises. Systems, cultures, people might all be different. Just a few short weeks into her job as NASA chief information officer, Renee Wynn has a lot of work to do. Recently decamped from EPA, she compared the two agencies for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
November 30, 2015 -
Federal chief information officer Tony Scott said agencies are spending too much of their money on legacy technology that can’t easily be secured, and the people who have built and supported it are leaving government service. HUD, EPA, SSA and the Patent and Trademark Office are among the agencies trying to transform their IT infrastructures.
November 18, 2015 -
Agencies are slowly beginning to embrace that a culture change among top management is coming, as they begin to implement FITARA. Federal CIO Tony Scott said he's pleased overall with the plans agencies have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget so far.
October 30, 2015 -
AFGE reminds Congress, White House and others of the concerns feds had during the last government shutdown and the impact the work stoppage had on them and their families in 2013.
September 18, 2015 -
The mission of the General Services Administration's 18-F is spreading across government now. Its former executive director, Greg Godbout, was one of the first to take its mission to another agency. Godbout, now the chief technology officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, told In Depth with Francis Rose his vision for the CTO's office is to serve both the internal IT team and the mission delivery people.
September 15, 2015 -
The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.
September 08, 2015 -
The Environmental Protection Agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is aimed at reducing power plant emissions and protecting those downwind of the facilities from the nitrogen and sulfur fumes they generate. Stephanie Hogan is the acting team leader for interstate transport of air pollution in the EPA's Office of General Counsel, and one of the people responsible for enforcing that rule. For her work, she was named one of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain more about her efforts, and the process for actually policing air pollution.
August 25, 2015 -
The Environmental Protection Agency won't have easy going for its proposed new pollution rules for power plants. The agency's plan to cut carbon emissions at power plants will soon face lawsuits from utility industry representatives and a group of state attorneys general. They'll contest the authority of the EPA for the way it's using an obscure section of the Clean Air Act. Environmental attorney Richard Ayers is a founding partner of the Ayers Law Group. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on this case.
August 13, 2015 -
Almost from its inception in the late 1960s, the Environmental Protection Agency has been driven by research. In fact, the EPA's R&D campus in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park houses 15 offices and is the largest EPA facility ever built. Ron Williams is a senior research chemist in the EPA's Office of Research and Development. On the Federal Drive, he told Federal News Radio's Tom Temin more about some of the projects being developed at the lab.
August 03, 2015 -
Whistleblowers told a House committee that managers at the Environmental Protection Agency turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual harassment for more than a decade.
July 30, 2015 -
The two cyber breaches at the Office of Personnel Management have got the attention of the media and federal managers. It’s also landed on the plates of many chief information officers. “Everyone in the government…
July 13, 2015 -
The Drug Enforcement Administration's Western Laboratory won the Federal Green Challenge award from the Environmental Protection Agency after the lab increased its electronics recycling more than any other federal agency in 2014. It recycled tons of electronics and nearly 10% more than its 2013 level. Zoe Heller manages the Zero Waste Section in EPA's Pacific Southwest Region. She joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the challenge, and some lessons everyone can learn from the DEA lab.
July 06, 2015