Ewire: Top EPA officials ask staff to report political interference to OIG

Top EPA officials are urging staff to tell the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of past incidents where political leaders overruled or retaliated against them, to inform a report expected this summer that the Biden administration hopes to use as evidence that it is reversing a Trump-era pattern of interference in scientific work. Citing “An EPA employee who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly,” Bloomberg Law writes that Administrator Michael Regan, acting chemicals office chief Michal Freedhoff and Scientific Integrity...