Regan tells EPA staff to work ‘in a fishbowl’ of transparency

EPA Administrator Michael Regan is telling agency staff he wants them to work “in a fishbowl” of transparency, saying openness about decision-making is vital as EPA ramps up its regulatory efforts. The agency chief made the pronouncement in an April 12 internal memo that EPA’s press office provided to Inside EPA, in which the administrator references 1983 congressional testimony by then-Administrator William Ruckelshaus who first “committed EPA to operating ‘in a fishbowl.’” Regan also said he pledged transparency during...