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The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general is looking into EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's many trips back and forth to Oklahoma.
Scott Pruitt, the new EPA administrator, has ordered the agency to implement 11 recommendations to expedite polluted lands cleanup.
The Recognizing the Environmental Gains in Overcoming Negligence (REGION) Act would prohibit using money set aside in appropriations bills to consolidate or eliminate EPA offices.
Democrats and Republicans voiced their concern that EPA's 31 percent cut in funding for fiscal 2018 could do more harm than good, and leave states "holding the bag" for the federal agency.
Significant cuts to EPA's state programs and workforce have sent agency executives and employees' unions scrambling to get a better understanding of what direction the Trump administration wants to take the department.
Environmental Protection Agency ethics officials are reminding employees of the ethical guidelines they must follow if they're speaking or acting in their capacity as an EPA employee. These ethics rules haven't changed in the new administration, the EPA Office of General Counsel said.