EPA continues efforts to cut staff, pushes for voluntary exits
Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency got another nudge toward the door in an email offering a second chance at voluntary retirement or deferred resignation. The agency is encouraging thousands of workers who remain after several rounds of buyouts and layoffs to voluntarily leave the agency, according to an April 28 email received by USA TODAY. The ongoing staff reductions are part of a sweeping effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to slash the size of the federal work force and reduce federal spending and the federal deficit. … The two departure programs are being offered to most employees, with some exclusions, according to the April 28 notice.
Other EPA news:
- KPBS (San Diego): Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- E&E News by Politico: EPA reups offers for staffers to quit
- E&E News by Politico: Meet the ‘problem solver’ tapped to lead EPA’s waste office
- Sentient Media: Blog: Nitrate pollutes waterways, but the EPA is more concerned with…fluoride?
