EPA agrees to boost transparency for competitive grants

EPA has agreed to recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to increase transparency around its competitive grant programs, after a GAO review found the agency “still has work to do” to make information about such grants more transparent. At the request of then-Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), GAO studied EPA's discretionary grants from fiscal years 2013 through 2015, and examined how the agency managed competition for such grants; how much in discretionary grants they...