Berkeley resident Daniel Fahey, recently hired by the Environmental Protection Agency to administer Bay Area grants aimed at improving water quality and restoring wetlands, is among the thousands of so-called “probationary” federal workers who received an email in mid-February announcing they’d been fired. … The full impacts of the cuts are yet to be seen. Already, the EPA has suspended anticipated grants for North Richmond, putting $19 million in projects meant to improve the environment in limbo. More than 60 California grants are on a list of 400 that the EPA has targeted for termination, according to a list obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Other EPA news:

• Bloomberg Law: EPA will reopen nomination process for science advisory panels
• E&E News by Politico: EPA opens call to fill key scientific advisory panels
• E&E News by Politico: House votes to undo Biden EPA approval of California rules