Wheeler launches new staff reporting tool for environmental risks

In an all-hands Oct. 4 email, EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced he is launching a new web-based tool for agency staff to use to notify senior management when concerns they raise to supervisors about significant environmental risks go unaddressed. The effort builds on a January 2016 elevation policy that EPA issued in response to the Flint, MI, drinking water crisis. In the email , Wheeler says he is “affirming, as past Administrators have, the importance of elevating human health...