OIG urges EPA to beef up fraud training after failure to report incident

September 9, 2024
EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging EPA Administrator Michael Regan to train his staff how to recognize and disclose fraud, after air enforcement agents missed fraudulent letters sent to the agency regarding a Clean Air Act national security exemption for certain engines that the employees did not report as fraud. That resulted in a U.S. Attorney’s Office declining to pursue criminal charges, and prompting the OIG and law enforcement agencies to close the investigation. The OIG lays out...


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