EPA has billions of dollars on hand to stay open through the government shutdown and is using it to fund a new approach to this funding lapse: sending some staffers home while many others stay on to support the president’s priority projects. … EPA staff and outside observers who engage with them say that virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and water quality is still on the job … while teams at EPA’s water and air offices continued to work on priority policies that the agency has promised to deliver at a breakneck pace.

Other government shutdown news:

• Mountain West News Bureau: Judge extends block on federal worker layoffs during shutdown
• The Hill: Trump fossil fuel approvals keep coming despite government shutdown