Environmental Protection Agency

  • A summary of spending proposals from the Obama administration

    February 26, 2009
  • Can you write, sing, produce or dance? If you can, you might be a prime candidate for the EPA’s “Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder” contest. Kathy Sykes, Senior Advisor of EPA’s Aging Initiative, tells us…

    February 25, 2009
  • Marcus Peacock is deputy director at the EPA. We spoke with him for his last day in the office. He has been in government for a long time and done some remarkable things. He talked…

    January 19, 2009
  • Is there a better way to reach out to people and get their comments on federal regulations? The Environmental Protection Agency has been trying a variety of ways. This week, EPA has announced it is…

    January 16, 2009
  • There are only six days left in the Bush administration. The Daily Debrief has been having a number of “exit interviews” with some Bush administration political appointees. Last week, we spoke to Transportation Department chief…

    January 14, 2009
  • The EPA reached a new agreement with five groups that will advance our water and plumbing systems. It may help your agency meet its mandate to save water and reduce energy costs. Benjamin Grumbles, EPA…

    January 13, 2009
  • The EPA reached a new agreement with five groups that will advance our water and plumbing systems. It may help your agency meet its mandate to save water and reduce energy costs. Benjamin Grumbles, EPA…

    January 13, 2009
  • Making Second Life accessible to the disabled and other challenges of merging Web 2.0 with the mandates of Section 508.

    November 17, 2008
  • Agencies have had Web sites for at least a decade, but those sites have to constantly evolve. Anybody who has undertaken a site redesign knows it can be an arduous process. The Environmental Protection Agency…

    November 06, 2008